The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18
GREENLAND.
Some Facts About the region OF Rocks
and Snow.

From the Brooklyn Times.
$50 you want to know something
about Greenland" said a veteran
tourist and explorer. I've been there.
PROFOUND your conundrums. is it
easy getting there?' Why, as easy as it
is to get from here to Coney Island.
Ice? Yes, you meet some, and so you
do when you go to England, but the
fast steamers ram right ahead all the
same. went up in July, and navIga-
tion was easy enough then, though |
only touched at the settlements on
the west coast. But | have been quite
well up. was within sixty miles Of
where they found Greeley, and |
shouldn't have any hesitation in 60
ing there again, if had another, or
two other, stanCh vessels with
me. That's the way to carry on arc
ticexploratiOns. Let a little fleet 60 up,
and not send a little 4O0-tOn ship
there all by herself That's the way
the rescue party worked up through
Smiths Sound. After you get that
far you might as well turn around and
come home again, unless you are
anxious to beat Greely's record, for at
that point you bring up against ice
that's simply impenetrable. 1t may
be 100 feet thick, and your vessel may
be nipped for the entire Winter.
Whalers are often frozen in. But if
you went in Summer, and didn't try
to 60 up the fancy latitudes, | think
you would enjoy Greenland-a few
weeks of it. The scenery is fine; grand,
sometimes. There are great cliffs and
steep mountains along the shore, often
too nearly perpendicular for snow to
he on, even in Winter, and the COlors
that they take on in the light OF the
midnight sun-a kind ofContinual sun
set-are some hing wonderful. Most
people imagine land | used to think
the same) that Greeland is buried un-
der snow and ice the whole year round.
Wait until | open this portfolio.
There, do you see those dried MOSES
and flowers? They would hardly
grow in snow, would they? Well,
/ picked those in Greenland,
and not in the most southern
part either. Berries grow there,
and dwarf willows. In Summer for
distance of two to twenty miles back
from the sea there are valleys opening
into the mountains that are beauti-
ful, they are so full of green moss.
Mosquitoes I've seen there in clouds.
No, the temperature isn't torrid, but
dressed as these people are, and living
in tightly built houses or closely
sheathed vessels, they don't suffer any
more from cold than we do down here
In Winter. The weather is often dis
agreeable in Southern Greenland, par
ticularly in spring and fall, on ac-
count of rain and logs, and In winter
everything is showed up, but the sum-
mer suits me blamed sight better
than some of the New York summers.
Fany an August when the thermome-
ter didn't 60 beyond 55 or go degrees.
How does that strike you? The idea
chat Greenland was covered with ice
and snow, comes / suppose, from the
explored, and that it seems to be, in
fact, I've no doubt it is, covered by a
tremendous glacier starting near
the pole, and giving off little
side branches that come down
through the fords of canyons
opening from the sea- These branch
glaciers supply the icebergs. The ice
current pushes out until it reaches
water.deep enough to float it, and
then it breaks of in mountainous
chunks. and goes south wish the cur
rent. One of the crawliest feelings /
ever had was when fclimbed goodish
sort of hill near Godthaab to take
the bearings of things. There was
open water on the west, and little
valleys that looked pretty enough to
camp out in, and there was the settle
nsent with its church, brick church,
mind you. Oh, they can put on style
! Then when you turned the other way
there was a long line ofsnowy heights,
bleak and desolate, that seemed to
lead away and away till you couldn't
stand it to think of the horrible chill
and loneliness There was long white
line that might have been fifty miles
of, and that was the horizon, nothing
but ice. 1t made me feel bomesick for
o while. The interior mountains
don't make much of an exhibition,
though if the glacier was to be lifted
Of ] suppose they would show up for
quite respectable hills. Some of the
cliffs along the coast must be 1000
feet high, and on the east side believe
there's peak that's put down st IL,
coo feet. As to living, they all seem to
have enoughup there, such as it is.
The Esquimaux eat fish and most
any kind Of meat they can get. and
the Danish settlers live on much the
same sort of grub. A government
steamer goes from Denmark twice a
year with letters, cheese -four, pota-
toes, beef wood and bad butter.
There are no cows or horses. Stop!
/ did see a COW, think it was at
GodthAab, that's the biggest settle
snank. naarlv Il 600 neonle The crit