[Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent, 'Cluett' Voyage] 1915-1916
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Transcription
"cigars were of Danish manufacture - [?] were of time and proper quality, as a matter of course. Soon after breakfast, I went ashore with Captain Conner, who made friends with the Eskimos while I and called upon the governor, Mr. A. Winterborg, whom I found to be a serious interesting man of thirty-five years old, rather forty speaking German fluently but struggling hard when trying to converse in English. The Danish population of Upernivik consisting governor Winterborg, wife and two small children; his newly arrived assistant; the Lutheran pastor, wife and two children, and the former pastor, now a very old man. The governor's wife informed me joyously that she and the pastor's wife