Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
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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.