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The Danish dollar, at the time of writing (1860), was worth fifty-five cents of American money.

The following is the interpretation of the Danish of the six skilling note on page 45:

"This order is good for Six Skillings Country Currency at the Commercial Towns in Greenland."

Copenhagen, 1856. "B * * * *.

"Noted [in the Registry of Records],

"L * * * * *."

One of these skillings is worth about half-a-cent. U. S. federal money.

"Pim-ma-in," a term used in former times among the Innuits for the principal man (or chief) among them. It is now obsolete, as there are no chiefs or rulers among them. Every man is now on an equality one with another.

The matter of the Frobisher "gold" or iron is sufficiently treated of in the body of the work, on page 161, vol ii.

The following account of the wreck of the George Henry appeared in a New London journal, shortly after the occurrence of the disaster to which it relates:—

"Captain Christopher B. Chapell, of Norwich Town, has arrived in the bark Monticello, from Hudson's Bay, together with the mate and part of the crew of the bark George Henry, of New London, which has been wrecked upon the Lower Savage Islands. She was forced upon the rocks