were being driven by a favorable 1/2 gale and made 210 miles that day. Even the captains admitted that there was “quite a breeze of wind blowing” and we went flying through Davis Strait, crossing the Arctic Circle about midnight of 3 August. The Greenland coast is bold and picturesque, and the grandeur of its scenery is to be compared with that of Norway. Numerous deep narrow fjords indent the shore line. Granitic mountains 3000 to 5000 feet in height rise precipitous- ly from the water. Countless gla- ciers, most of them nameless as well, descend the cliffs from high neve' fields or the heavy ice caps in bands of brilliant dazzling white, the ice cap itself beyond being visible from the heads of the fjords.