since spring, when the Eskimios make their last trips across by sledge. The little town is built on the almost bare rocks at the southwest point of a small granite island the highest point of which is 700 feet above the sea, and there is no beach It might have been better for us had we utilized the good breeze during which we arrived at Whinnik for driving along up the coast as long as it lasted, tho' the calm and head winds that probably pervened would have negatived our progress just the same. or good landing place facing the anchorage. The anchorage, further more, is poor being in 23 fathoms of water on a small ledge or bank. Hence the yearly steamers do not lie here but moor in Danish Havn,