SPEECH OE COL. SHAFFNER AT GLASGOW. 23 upon the coast. We did not visit this ice, however, for the purposes of the- telegraph, except so far as its physics might have an influence upon the telegraph to Greenland, from or to the sea. It was most dark when we got back to the ice-blink, where the veteran Motzfeldt and the Esquimaux were anxiously waiting for us. The Esquimaux had felt much anxiety and fear as to our safety, and they shed tears of joy on seeing us in the distance, descending the mountain side. They met us, and took us by the hand, one after the other, and welcomed us back, and expressed thanks to God for our safe return. Up to that moment we were not aware that we had been in any danger, nor were we, according to our ideas of danger. This circumstance is related that the audience may be able to appreciate with me these good-hearted people (applause). We saw many icebergs during the voyage. The largest was about 80 feet high, which was in the Strait of Belle Isle. Many of them go there, and others cluster upon the east coast of New- foundland ; and it is owing to the immense collection of ice upon this coast, that vessels cannot enter the port of St. John's, New- foundland, many weeks during the winter months. The coast of Greenland is not approachable at all times, for the reason, that the Spitzbergen floe-ice arrives upon the south-west coast from the east coast early in February, or perhaps late in January, and it continues to move northward until in summer, when it ceases. The coast is then free from ice, and vessels can enter and depart at pleasure. It would be advisable to have a steamer for that coast. A steam vessel can enter many times through open lanes between the ice fields, when a sailing vessel could not enter for want of wind. Very often this ice continues in fields or patches a mile or more in extent, and between them several miles of open water. A steam-vessel could, therefore, go into port almost at any time during the summer months, while perhaps it might be dan- gerous for a sailing vessel to attempt it, even with a moderate wind. I satisfied myself that a telegraph cable could, without any pos- sibility of interruption from ice, be laid into the fiords of Green- land during five months of the year, and often chances within the three summer months, and that there were four months of the year when it was reasonable to consider it impossible. Having finished our work at Greenland, we then sailed for Iceland. We rounded Cape Farewell, and approached the east coast off Lindenow fiord, within a few miles of the shore. The hills appeared to be much the same as those upon the west coast, but there was some ice or snow upon them. Had we have had time, we could have easily entered the fiords without interruption from ice. We did not see ice of any kind on the east coast in the fiords

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