. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. always characterized theirchurch. Two of their children, they said, had goneto God last year with the scurvy; 3^et they hesitatedat receiving a scanty supply of potatoes as a presentfrom our store. We lingered along the coast for the next nine days,baffled by calms and light adverse winds; and it wasonly on the lOtli of July that we reached the settle-ment of Sukkertoppen. The Sukkertop, or Sugar-loaf, a noted landmark, is awild isolated peak, rising some 3000 feet from the little colo
. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. always characterized theirchurch. Two of their children, they said, had goneto God last year with the scurvy; 3^et they hesitatedat receiving a scanty supply of potatoes as a presentfrom our store. We lingered along the coast for the next nine days,baffled by calms and light adverse winds; and it wasonly on the lOtli of July that we reached the settle-ment of Sukkertoppen. The Sukkertop, or Sugar-loaf, a noted landmark, is awild isolated peak, rising some 3000 feet from the little colony which nestles at its base occupies a 28 SUKKERTOPPEN. rocky gorge, so narrow and broken that a stairwayconnects the detached groups of huts, and the tide, asit rises, converts a part of the groundplot into a tem-porary island. Of all the Danish settlements on this coast, it struckme as the most picturesque. The rugged cliffs seemedto blend with the grotesque structures about their trim red and white painted frame mansion, which,in virtue of its green blinds and flagstaff, asserted the. APPROACH TO SUKKERTOPPEN, gubernatorial dignity at Fiskernaes, was here a lowly,dingy compound of tarred roof and heavy gables. Thedwellings of the natives, the natives themselves, andthe wild packs of dogs that crowded the beach, were allin keeping. It was after twelve at night when we cameinto port; and the peculiar light of the Arctic summerat this hour,—which reminds one of the effect of aneclipse, so unlike our orthodox twilight,—bathed everything in gray but the northern background—an Alpinechain standing out against a blazing crimson )pen is a principal depot for reindeer-skins; SUKKERTOPPEN. 29 and the natives were at this season engaged in theirsummer hunt, collecting them. Four thousand hadalready been sent to Denmark, and more were onhand. I bought a stock of superior quality for lift}cents a piece. These furs are valuable for theirlightness and warmth. T
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