Note 150 — Chapter XXXIII · THE ROUTE BY SMITH SOUND. KANE—HAYES—HALL—NARES—MARKHAM

Hans Hendrik was born at the German missionary station of Fiskernäs in Greenland, and had become a good kayaker and hunter when he agreed to join Dr Kane’s expedition, where he was under the protection of Carl Petersen. He was with Morton when he reported having seen the open polar sea. After Kane’s second winter Hans joined the Arctic Highlanders and married a girl named Markut. Hans and his wife later joined Hayes’s expedition, and afterwards settled at Upernivik. In August, 1871, they joined Hall’s expedition, and were left on the floe which drifted down Baffin’s Bay, where, as we have seen, Hans saved the rest of the party by his skill as a huntsman. He was most useful in some of the sledge journeys from the Discovery. In 1877 he wrote his memoirs in Eskimo, which were translated into English by Dr Rink (Trübner, 1878). He afterwards lived at Upernivik.