The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-11-05
Social Life Among the Denizens of
the Arctic Regions.
A DANCE WITH THE ESQUIMAUX FAIR.
Ungallant SANDERS Regard
ing Them Refuted.
The Royal Game Of the
Ice Drifts.

Pandora suddenly awakened as II from nap in which
she had oversight herself slowly turned around look
Ing all about the harbor as though trying to find out
where she was and then having apparently discovered
her course, suddenly spread her wings and darted
rapidly But, instead OF directing her
Bans Bay she turned her head up the Waigat
Strait which separates the island of Disco from the
mainland, for the Pandora hungry again.
In spite OF her delicate lines and light, jaunty APP
pearance, she has Unsuitable nav and has already
consumed nearly all the coal we supplied her with at
ivigtut, and Is greediy demanding more We do not
choose to let her encroach upon supply just
yet, and SO 60 up wagat Strait, on whose shores
coal may be obtained the trouble putting aboard
ship
We fairly out Of the little harbor than
our old friends, the head winds greeted US and init
mated that might count upon them all the way up
The strait So had to commence our old business OF
beating again. which at last began TO appear to us the
natural and normal way OF sailing long had been
ut It,
FOG.
We kept the screw going at "easy," had none
too little time before to depend only upon the per-
sistently obstinate winds for getting forward All that
day and the next until worked up the strait
bither shore of which visible nearly all the time.
We met good deal OF floating ice, but enough
Interfere with our progress except when into
great thick heavy curtains OF fog which at times pre-
vented our seeing more 4pan few yards ahead of the
'essel Navigation underBnch circumstances becomes
exceedingly dangerous it is almost impossible to
The heavy pieces OF Ice in time to avoid them, and
1t becomes necessary proceed very slowly prevents
dangerous collision. During tho whole forenoon OF
August most of the of these fogs,
which electually hid the western shore, along which
We were searching for an Esquimaux village where
were to get number of the natives to show us the
coal and help us to put II board. We felt way
along the shore blindfod it until O'Clock,
when the captain decided that we must have passed
the place, and put the ship about He had scarcely
done when the fog lifted and we beheld the coast
but few cables length distant and we were not long
in making the village, which had already passed
two or three miles back
We opposite, the ship was hove to and the
captain went ashore with letter to the Danish Cover
nor VIII oh had been given him by Governor Eberg at
Lievely BY this time the fog had quite
cleared away aud we saw the eastern shore
about ten miles distant which in steep rugged
wall that appeared to be scarcely broken by single
srcvice aud curving around to the north and south
seemed our shore and form large and beautiful
inland sea.
FLOATING IcEBERGs.
1t full Of floating ice, not in sufficient quantities
were many icebergs which rose in huge masses mere
and there displaying beautiful tnts of blue green and
white that became brilliant dazzle the eyes in
the warm bright light OF an afternoon The
wind, that longer moving had
quite died out, and the water, undisturbed
BY single ripple, was as smooth glass, while from
lime to time there was Deep dull report like the dis
liant booming OF heavy gun, followed perhaps, long
lime afterward by gentle swell, telling where an ice
berg has split in and turned These reports
heard continually among icebergs and resemble
n distant cannonade that DR.. Kane named them very
lpty ice artillery The place off which had stopped
Is called Yuyarsusuk and consists Of four five houses
tumbled together and inhabited by perhaps thirty
forty people, young and old. The cap
tain of with the Governor, who spoke
a little German, by means of which language we com
muncated with him. To our great satisfaction we
learned that the coal dug for and all ready be
put on board. For this had to thank Captain
Mares, who had promised Captain Young to have the
coal got out and had faithfully kept his promise in all
the hurry and trouble Of making the final preparations
for his departure.
Closely following the Governor came an "umiak or
"woman's boat . loaded full OF women and children.
They had partly of curiosity the ship
partly to bring OIL four fine dogs Captain
Young had bought Dogs, women and children were
all taken board and they all seemed about equally
frightened at everything they
The dogs were tied up and the and chill
dren given something to cat, which very soon put
them at their The Esquimaux have always shown
so fmuch kindness to shpwrecked whalers and dis
tressed Arctic explorers who have fallen into their
power, that Arctic navigators always make a point
Of treating them kindly and giving them little pre-
sents which highly priced by them The women
were nearly all old and ugly and there were no
pretty girls among them, except two children with
lair, taken hair and blue eyes, who
looked very odd in their little boots and
breeches They turned out to be the children Of the
Governor, who was married to an Esquimaux woman,
and he had afterward learned, several more. He
Informed that all the and several Of the women
Of the village up the strait, somewhere IN the
direction Of the Kudset Rittenbank coal mine, in
boat and that If we went would find them. We
accordingly turned the ships head again the north
aud proceeded up the strait In hour We perceived
little sloop coming laziiy down before the wind the
srcw apparently, all except the at tho helm asleep
in the warm sunshine, indolenty as If they we're
drifting on some sunny Southern sea, instead of
among the ice mountains Of the Arctic In
few minutes they within halling distance
The Governor spoke to them and twenty OF them
lumbled into boat that towing and came OF
" He gave them their Instructions which were 10 20
with us help coal and bring back any letters we
night want to send to Europe, and then aboard
The little soop, after wishing hearty God speed on
voyage
THE GOODNESS or GREENLAND DASEa
Arctic navigators great deal TO the kindness OF
these simple honest Greenland Danes and the courtesy
Of the Danish government Year after year Arctic
plorers and whalers indebted to them for assist
lnce in a number of ways, which they always
Dner with the most hearty and friendly
cordality. And Of nearly every nation
are indebted them for many acts of Kindness
They rendered every assistance in coaling, and we
had to rely upon their kindness to send our letters TO
Denmark where they always carefully mailed by
the courtesy Of the Danish authorities.
With the addition of sixteen Esquimaux men and
women to continued our course up the
coast toward the Kudsct coa banks We were not very
long in learning that live Of the six women were
girls two OF them pure Esuumaux three half Danish,