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"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