Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
Page 55
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Before he served his guests and finally to quit his room. I in eleven before one leave the house, Mr. White and I then start out for the cliff. On the way we collect numerous plants but find the flowering season almost at end. On the way to the cliff we get our first estimation of distances. It looks as if almost at hand and yet then a day's home walk. As we got closer do behold what one regarded an sedimentary shore to be cry- stalline order, The entire cliff is so and the Flesh folds are not coal on whole but dark crystalline banks of which we have several samples. We return to the village at 2.30 P.M. Dinner is announced at 3 P.M. and being out vegetable soup. The vegetables are asparagus from Denmark and canned game run in Denmark by Mrs. Hantgen. With the soup is served claret wine. The next course is a chopped meat made in balls. Blue berries or native crowberries and native additions going with the meat. Madeira wine was also served. Cheese is again at hand. After dinner we go to the governors office where coffee and [illegible] are served. After this I pursue my plants and pack them.