Note 24 — Chapter VIII · JOURNEY ALONG THE COAST OF GREENLAND FROM ILLUIDLEK TO FRIEDRICHSTHAL. JUNE, 1870.[19]
Lewis Page Mercier translation
In a particularly interesting letter from the missionaries, received by our Society on the 4th of Nov., 1871, and written by A. Gericke, Friedrichsthal, 22nd August, it is said,—“A short time since a great number of the heathenish inhabitants of the east coast of Greenland came to us to barter, as they are in the habit of doing in some years. They said that they had seen the crew of the Hansa on the ice-floe, but from terror at such an appearance on their desert shore they had not ventured to go to them.”