to some of the crew in making canes (27) and coming chains with terminating in ball and anchor. My chief object in stopping at Disko was to visit and collect speci timens for the American Museum. Ovifak, the locality where Baron Nor- den ski old got his masses of terres- trial native iron in basalt. The captain therefore put the gasoline soon after launch into the water and, about noon on the fifth of August, took the inspector, the governor and me, together with an Eskimo pilot, on board and started westward along Toward the coast to visit Ovifak, the spot some thirty miles distant where Baron Nordenskjold, the famous Swedish scientist and explorer, got his masses of terrestrial