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port, visited by the Danish cor -/19
out there. Our “last port” had
been Battle Harbor, where no
bill of health could be obtained
and where no consuls are stationed.
Nevertheless, permission was given for
the vessel's
our crew to fill our water tanks from
a designated brook on the opposite
side of the harbor from the village.
Godhavn (Good Harbor) is a
straggling settlement comprised of
five Danish and twenty five or
twenty Eskimo families. Many
of the lutes show the evidence of
admixture of white blood.
It is the capital of Danish North
Greenland and the most prominent
build structure in it, aside from
the church, is the building which
contains the rooms devoted to