Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
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"drink." [illegible] We return to camp by two p.m. and find that the pastor is here and had been invited to dinner by Mr. Stickney. The bottles are again in evidence, the two and I clean up and sit down sentlemen are enjoying their coffee and a smoke. [illegible] that he proposed joining today to [illegible] is stranded and will remain overnight at [illegible]. One of the Karonak natives brings in some graphite which occurs here in the hills. Other native bring us other, turkeys and birds, i.e. guilimotos, side duell and one small cretous bird something like a snake. He purchases the fish and me skin. At 3.15—Mr. White and I go to the plant of [illegible] reality from Karent. From the sea up to 300 foot the hill bed of granite. Some of the ground from that level cannot hit at 700 foot one find plant is a dark shale. A coal bed the best we have seen occur a few feet higher. Mr. White climbs up to height of 1020 foot on the olivine basalt. Up the basalt show takes a few specimen and of a white land with horn column inclusions. On the way down this two natives come with [illegible] only us to dine with Mr. Bostin and the