Aug 10, 1943
Arrived at Cape Dan (Kulusuk) and started unloading ship. – Saw Eskimos turn over their kayaks while in them and then upright them again, also tip over accidentally and nearly drown. Trading with Eskimos and working 14 and 16 hours a day.
Cape Dan! What a great name!

Kulusuk Winter – By Algkalv (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
I have to say – that looked extremely cold… but I think I’d be up for trying it someday… perhaps someplace warmer though.
In 1943 and 1944, my Grandfather Merton Young traveled to Greenland while working for the Merritt-Chapman & Scott Company. He wrote a brief diary of his journey and this is a piece of that story.
Next entry – Aug 13
Great picture.