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of the settlement numbers a - 153
but one hundred souls, but most
of the men were away, fishing and
hunting. The Danish women
find the winters terribly long
and lonesome, with nine months
of cold weather and the Arctic nights
for 90 days
without sun lasting from early No.
vember to the beginning of February.
The men lead a more active life than
the women and do not find it so hard.
The Danes regard Greenland
as missionary ground and are
now
working hard to raise the moral
as well as the physical tone of
the Eskimo population. They derive
less revenue from the colony than
is required for
the expenditures which they lay
out upon the colony, but they discour-
age and in fact prohibit commerce