Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-06-13
LIFE IN GREENLAND.
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE REGION
OF ROCKS AND SNOW.


toes Bleak and Lonely Heights.
$50 you want 10 know something about
Greenland" ," said a veteran tourist and eX-
plnrrr. I've been there. PROFOUND your
conundrums. Is II easy getting there'
Why, a. easy as 1t is IL get from here to
Cnney island lCr' Yes, you meet some
and 81 You do when You 90 10 England,
but the fast steamers ran right ahead all
the same. | went up in July, and naviga
tIun 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 Greedy,
and shouldn't have any hesitation in
going there again. if had another, or two
other stanch vessels with me That's
the way to carry on arctic explorations.
Let a little fleet 80 up and not send lit
tie ~ ton ship there all 10y herself. That's
the way the rescue party worked up
through smiths Sound After you get
that far You might ~ well turn around
and come home again, unless you are
anxious Ia beat Grrrly's record. for at that
point You bring up against ice that Is
simply impcnetrahle 1t may he 100 feet
thick. and your vessel may he nipped for
the entire winter. Whalcrs arc often
frozen in
FINE SCENERY AND GLORIOUS CoL0RS.
"But if you went in summer, and didn't
try To 20 up the fancy ATTITUDES. ! think
You would enjoy Greenland a few weeks
of il. The scenery is fine; grand, some
times There are great ellis and steep
mountains along the shore, often too
nearly perpendicular for snow TO lie on,
h.af hay
take on in the light of the midnight sun
a kind of continual sunset-are something
wonderful Most people imagine land |
used to think the same that Greenland Is
buried under snow and ice the whole year
round. Wait until open this portfolio.
There do you see those dried mOsses and
flowers, They would hardly grow in
snow, would they, Well, picked those
in Greenland, and not in the most south
ern part either. Berries grow there, and
dwarf willows. In summer for a dis
tance of two to twenty miles back from
the sea there are valleys opening into the
mountains that are beautiful, they are SO
full of green moss. Mosquitoes I've seen
there in clouds No. the temperature
isn't tOrrid. but dressed as those people,
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 disaGreeable in
southern Greenland, particularly in spring
and fall, on account of rains and fogs, and
in winter everything is showed up, but the
summer suits me blamed sight better
than some Of the New York summers.
Fancy an August when the thermometer
didn't 90 beyond - or 6O degrees. How
does that strike YOU The idea that Green
land was covered with ice and snow comes,
| suppose, from the fact that the interior
has never been explored. and that it seems
to he, in fact, I've no doubt il is, covered by
a tremendous glacier starting near the pole
and giving of little side branches that
come down through the fjOrds of canyons
opening from the sea. The branch glaciers
supply the iCebergs. The ice current
pushes out until it reaches water deep
enough 10 float il. and then il breaks off
in mountainous chunks, and goes south |
with the current One of the Crawliest |
feelings | ever had WAS when | climbed a
goodish sort of a 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 settlement with its |
church, brick church, mind you. Oh, they |
can put on style.
SNOWY HEIGHTS, BLEAK AND LONELY.
"Then when you turned the other way |
there was a long line Of snowy heights, |
Sleak and desOlate. that seemed 10 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 off, and that was the |
horizon, nothing but ice 1t made me |
feel hOmesick for awhile The interior |
mountains don't make much of an eXhibi-
ton, 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
he 1000 feet high, and on the east
side believe there's a peak that's put
down at II, 900 feet. As TO living. they all
seem to have enough up there, such rs it
is. The EsIuimauX 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 year, with letters, cheese,
-four, potatoes, beef, wood and bad butter.
There are no cows OF horses Stop! did
see a COW, | think il was at Godthaab.
that's the biggest settlement, nearly 1000
people. The critter had been sent from
Denmark TO the parson there, and was
picking up living on bunch grass aud
barrel hoops
You can hardly say that there are any
industries in Greenland There's a cryo-
lite mine; that's about all A few coal
mines are worked just enough to supply
the settlements, but not to export any
thing. OF course, q ere's whaling and
sealing and fishing, ut not much hunt
ing, for the land animals have nearly been
killed off. Perhaps there's a field for the
agriCultu.alist who will go
up there and raise things under glass. A
man in Frederickshaab told Inc he had
eaten native Strawberries, and have seen
lettuce and radishes growing under cover
and doing pretty well had quantity
Df canned stuff with me, or couldn't have
stood il. it.'-BroOklyn Times Interview.
Careless Use OF the Lancet.
NJ. Boissenot, one Of the chief perma-
nent officials at the Paris Prefecture of
policn is in a situation TO realize the wis
iOm Of the prOverb which enjoins the cob
bier TO stick To his last. a few days ago
Madame Boissenot being afflicted with an
ibcess he took upon himself to lance il As
he was doing 50 she shrank suddenly from
he lancet, and he inflicted a slight wound
IN his finger which he neglected to cauter
ze. In a short time his hapd and arm
,welled in the most alarming manner. and ;
he physicians called TO attend him say I
hat he has 10 chance of life except in
Chicago Journal
Fo.hounds for Hunting Wolves.
Two packs of foXhuun,is are sustained
Iy English settlers in the northwestern {
Dart of Iowa for the sport Of chasing the {