CHAPTER XI.

A Week at Godhavn 348

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE The “Panther” among the Icebergs _Frontispiece_. View of Julianashaab 27 The Oomiak and Crew 46 View of the Old Norse Ruins 63 Ground-plan of Ruins 67 Concordia at the Picnic 93 A Greenland Parliament in Session 104 Concordia Dressed for the Ball 119 Front View of the Glacier 147 Crossing the Crevasse on an Ice-bridge 160 Map of the Glacier 162 The Glacier of Sermitsialik 167 Vertical Section of Glacier 170 The Kryolite Mine at Arsut Fiord 207 The Peak of Kresarsoak 221 Entering the Fiord 224 The Lumme of the Arctic Sea 226 Shooting Lumme 228 Esac 231 Esac’s Hut 233 The Governor and Family 238 View of Upernavik and Kresarsoak 241 Eider-ducks 246 The Polar Bear 254 Seals 256 The Devil’s Thumb 261 The Panther after the Bears 268 The Captain after the Bear 278 Moored to a Floe in Melville Bay 287 The Iceberg Castle 291 We Steam away from the Midnight Sun 295 The most Northern House on the Globe 299 Jensen and his Family 303 An Arctic Witch 307 We go through an Iceberg to call on Philip 310 Philip, the Hunter, and his Sons 312 The Raven 317 Hans and his Family 322 The Great Auk 337 Iceberg in Jacobshavn Fiord 346

“Out upon time! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before! Out upon time! who forever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve O’er that which hath been, and o’er that which must be; What we have seen our sons shall see— Remnants of things that have passed away, Fragments of stone, reared by creatures of clay.” Byron’s _Siege of Corinth_.

THE LAND OF DESOLATION.

_PART THE FIRST._ RUINS.