Ludwig Kumlien 
 
of Eskimo drawings.... Annanactook (our winter harbor) was a most 
remarkably barren place.... Did not get out of Cumberland Gulf till 
the 19th of July.... Reached Godhavn Harbor on the last day of 
July ..." 
The men were disappointed that the expedition steamer did not 
meet them at Godhavn. They were greatly disappointed that no word 
had come from home during twelve months of their absence. 
 
LUDWIG KUMLIEN, 1853-1902 
 
Kumlien found in Governor Fencker a man familiar with the birds 
of North America as well as of Europe. He had acquired a good 
knowledge of Arctic ornithology during his eleven years' residence in 
Greenland. Kumlien (United States National Museum, Bulletin 15, 
p. 72) says: "The birds do not congregate in large numbers on the 
islands in Cumberland to breed, the way they do on the Greenland 
coast. There is an exception with Somateria molissima [Northern 
Eider]. Some species that breed by myriads two hundred miles to 
the southward, and are equally numerous on the coast of Greenland