30 THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. large quantity of ice on that coast ?—Yes, by persons uninformed as to the facts. 3966. Can you account at all for the fact of your not having found any ice ?—Yes, because it is not common for ice to remain on that coast, and during parts of every year there is none there of consequence. I do not know that any vessels have ever approached there at that season of the year ; nor is it common for vessels to go there ; they imagine that it is icebound. 3967. How has the opinion arisen that it is icebound ?—I sup- pose from the fact that in certain seasons of the year the floe ice runs from the north round by the Greenland current, and vessels in the Atlantic have observed the ice at the seasons of the year that ships frequent those latitudes, but I know of no vessel ever having visited the south-east coast.* 3969. l)o vessels never attempt to go there in the autumn ?—I never heard of one attempting to go there in the autumn. 3970. When was the Danish survey of that coast made ? — GraalFs survey was made about 1830; it commenced in 1828, I believe. 3971. Would not his vessels have remained both the autumn and spring there ?—Graah went very little prepared for a survey; he had no vessels, and at the season of the year when it was desirable to be there the winds were against him. He had skin boats, which were wholly unfitted for such a service. I have travelled many miles in those skin boats, and know the danger that there is in going in the ice with them. Besides that, they are used by Esquimaux, and the Esquimaux are a timid race, so far as such an enterprise may require their services. That there are difficulties in regard to the ice is possible for much of the year, but for some four or five months I do not apprehend that there is any danger or any difficulty in approaching the coast and the open bays upon the east coast of Greenland with a steamer, but it is very uncertain about getting there with a sailing vessel for want of wind. 3972. What is the reason of the difference ?—The difference is that the seasons generally are against it; when the coast is free of ice, the winds are generally from the coast. 3973. Do the winds blow off the coast at that season of the year ?—Yes, it did when I was there. 3974. In which direction does the current set ?—The current sets from the northward, coming between Iceland and Greenland, and sweeps around Cape Farewell and Stattinhuk, making a consi- derable eddy down to the southern end of Greenland. * The first vessels that ever neared the south-east coast of Greenland were the Wyman, sailing,—the Telegraph Expedition of 1859;—and after, were the Bulldog and Fox, steamers,—the expeditions in 1860.

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