pinacles and buttresses. lower part (96 of mountain is gray gneiss, between forms of upper bas suggest that it is limestone. Coal abounds in south. western part of big island east of gjdlorssuit. used as fuel all about here. Very convenient for the little settlements above referred to 2 lbs pr gjdlosmit .I saw then a man walking along base of bluff toward igloos apparently with a load of coal + paths in the snow lead up to places where the coal is dug out of the banks. Great- numbers of gules (burgomaster) and seerues nest in some of these lofty precipices. shore fishery works are. common quantity of meat, for none of the fish but the ling is used, except when other flesh is very scarce. The meat greatness a kind of drunkenness or crazy- ness in a dog when he eats it. was beginning to snow a little when reached Okazeelit. Station here is in charge of an Eskimo who looks tome as if he had some negro blood in his veins. Name is Pidi. He says that it is 11 miles (=44 mil.) to gjdlorssuit + 7 (=28) to Umanak.. Our average hike this afternoon was therefore 5 1/2 mil, without allowing for stops or deviating from direct course- Urkausigat