possible for me and made it (98 unnecessary to make the long detour further inland. Passed through many fields of rough ice where I did not see anything how the Kahnootik could advance but the dogs pulled it through all right with me on it all the time & Abram there most of it. Three or four times I got off to let trying lift the sledge over a crease which one or both runners struck head on. The Unmak is a striking mountain rising --- 3720 feet out of the sea Sides are precipices and top is said to be in - accessible. Really "Lent shaped", the heart being set ventricles up. Present- ed beautiful appearance with its shift- ing mantle of light cloud + its great summit streamer. Had to go down the west side & cross over the land near south end of Island to the settlement Pretty little lake on divide - Arr 4:10p. Warm welcome from all the Danes Met Governor Matthiessen + wife + two young daughter, Asst Hoon, wife, young daughter + Son, Miss Fleicher (she is cousin to Mrs Matthiessen + both me cousins to Knud Rasmussen) Miss Christensen, who [band of humbledepressors brings out great over- tuned "S" in south side Unmakskirt]