Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-27

just before. we got to Reykjavik we
swooped down into the lips of crater
and above beautiful lake deep in the
crater.
We had very kind reception in Tee
land, and 1t was good to sleep In fire
beds at a good hotel. The Meteor, q
German surveying ship, was in port,
and her first ofiicer was an old cam
Grad of mine In the German Navy. She
had just come from Greenland and
gave use some valuable information on
weather conditions. At Reykjavik
told the others about how wished TO
go to the United States, TO the State
of New York, and, oh, they we're SO
happy at the idea. 1t had never enter
ed their heads.
Storm Strikes After Leaving Iceland.
Wednesday it rained fearfully and
there was a great storm outside, and
we were glad to be in port. And on
Thursday we spent the day In refueling
and in getting ready for the long log
to Greenland. Just as before, 1t was
splendid weather when we left Iceland,
but before an hour we ran into q storm.
And 1t kept up almost the whole way.
For seven hours it blew hard from the
north, about 40 miles an hour, I think
And the air was bumpy so that plotting
was hard. 1t rained hard, too, ard
there was mist SO that we could not see
far and had to fly close to the surface
of the water And the sea was eeIy
rough. and we did not like to look upon
1t. So we were all relieved, think,
when we first sighted the pans of float
ing ice. For thes sea Is seldom rough in
an ice field, the ice breaks the force of
the wind and the water does not "kick
up" so much After ten hours we saw
Greenland's barren coast. 1t was rug-
ged, with great pinnacles sticking high
out of an icy sea; 1t was barren and
awful, though grand We could see no
living creature anywhere; nothing but
ice and sea and rock. The whole center
ok the island Is o great glacier and
from the glacier of ice poured down the
steep slopes into deep fjeTds.
Greenland Eskimos Were Amazed.
The old Dornier-Wal, rain soaked,
but still humping along, rounded Cape
Farewell in what should have been for
US about sunset, but because we had
been flying with the sun, 1t was still
early afternoon In Greenland. We new
very slowly over the coast because
wanted to soc Jublienahhab and
Friedershavn, where had sent some
petrol in case of an emergency landing.
But they were so little and the huts of
the Eskimos so small we could scarcely
see them. Then we landed in Ivitgut
in the Greenland afternoon, and the
ESkimos were stolidly amazed. We had
a splendid reception from the manager
of the creolite factory the only one Of
Its kind in the world; and we had q
real dinner and slept in real beds and
We had not expected that In Greenland.
Saturday morning at 8 o'clock as we
prepared to leave 1t was very fine
weather at Ivitgut, though the town
which was trying to get in the ford and
couldn't find the entrance because OF
fog. We took of, though, and then we
had our only accident. and we We're
lucky that it wasn't worse. Just as the
plane lifted from the ford, the propeller
for our driven radio generator, small
driven by the slip stream,
broke to pieces, exploded" really, Tor
it made an awful noise and smashed all
to bits. It wrecked the generator, but
fortunately 1t didn't do any harm at oil
to the tail Of the plane or to our elevat-
ing rudders. We came down again, saw
orator, and decided to make the hop
anyhow.
We had the petrol-driven generator,
you see, but that was hard, because 1t
had to be- cranked by hand each time
we started it. And 1t couldn't be kept
going long because 1t became too hot.
We got OF. all right the second time, but
soon ran into the fog the steamer had
reported.
We climbed and climbed and got over
the fog. Then we couldn't Use our
and so got out the bn.Jie
sextant, while thinner took Ike stick
and took some shots OF ths sun. Tkey
weren't very accurate because ] couIAilt
get q true horizon On account a thu
fog and the 90 was 40 bumpy that the
k1Tfzon afforded By the bubble