. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. SWARTE-HUK—BLACK HEAD. and set out in the whale-boat to make my purchases ofdogs among the natives. Gathering them as we wentalong from the different settlements, we reached Upernavik, the resting-place of the Grinnell Expedition in1851 after its winter drift, and for a coui^le of daysshared, as we were sure to do, the generous hospitalityof Governor Flaischer. 32 LAST DANISH OUTPOSTS. Still coasting along, we passed in succession theEsquimaux settlement of Kingatok; the Kettle,—amountain-top
. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. SWARTE-HUK—BLACK HEAD. and set out in the whale-boat to make my purchases ofdogs among the natives. Gathering them as we wentalong from the different settlements, we reached Upernavik, the resting-place of the Grinnell Expedition in1851 after its winter drift, and for a coui^le of daysshared, as we were sure to do, the generous hospitalityof Governor Flaischer. 32 LAST DANISH OUTPOSTS. Still coasting along, we passed in succession theEsquimaux settlement of Kingatok; the Kettle,—amountain-top so named from the resemblances of itsj)rofile,—and finally Yotlik, the farthest j^oint of colo-nization; beyond which, save the sparse headlands ofthe charts, the coast may be regarded as , inclining more directly toward the north, we ranclose to the Baffin Islands,—clogged with ice when Isaw them three 3ears before, now entirely clear,—sighted the landmark which is known as the HorsesHead, and, passing the Duck Islands, where the Ad-vance grounded in 1851, bore away for Wil
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