They left Liverpool and all went well until they came to Skagen Point.
About three o'clock we were abreast of Skagen, and I put her on a south-westerly course.
The Skagen lighthouse and the spire of its church looked to them like a heron and a swan upon the blue water.
As pale as death, and quite insensible, she lay at full length at the bottom of the boat, which steered towards Skagen.
In two days we shall start for that blessed, peaceful, pleasant Skagen.
She was born at Skagen, 1859, the daughter of Erik Brondum, and early showed her artistic tendencies.
She believes that a dilapidated Skagen hovel may meet every demand of beauty.
From Skagen our passage home was arranged by the British Consular authorities.
To the south of Skagen lie other curious phenomena created by this "Storm King."
Some of his best poems are about the Skaw fishermen, and later in life he settled down among them, dying at Skagen in 1907.