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however to more pleasant conditions.
We pushed away from camp at 9.40 and proceeded
on our journey under somewhat unfavourable conditions, it being
raining and blowing with the wind against us. Progress
however in fair places and we made by the use of the
oars about three miles per hour. All went fairly well
until about 1:30 P.M. when we go ashore for lunch.
Dane is at once discontented. I learn later that
he said to men that no hot lunch would be
served today and that it would be taken cold
in the boat. It a very small and if it were
possible he certainly should leave us. I regret
the affair very much but it is due entirely to
a misunderstanding.
We arrive at Noupssund about 7 P.M.
Our tents are pitched near the place of
two occupied by Mr Bartlett's party of last year,
we call on the governor, Holigger Andreas
Hendrickson, the son of the governor of Hiadornat,
he was asleep at the time. His wife calls us
in and in the mean time he became sufficiently awake
to offer a glass of wine. She speaks no English
and made an attempt to understand it. She is the
most governor we have met in Greenland.