. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. s. When about halfway, I ascend-ed a hill that overlooks the channel between LTalls Island and nails smaller island. The channel was free from ice savenear its west end. close by the little bay of our encampment, and presented an animated pic-ture of life, for seals andaquatic birds in great varie-ty were sporting there. Butas only a very brief time re-mained for this journey, Iwas obliged to hasten length, after a labori-ous walk,I reached NorthForeland, the goal of myambition in this presenttrip. Here the view was as en-chanting as it
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. s. When about halfway, I ascend-ed a hill that overlooks the channel between LTalls Island and nails smaller island. The channel was free from ice savenear its west end. close by the little bay of our encampment, and presented an animated pic-ture of life, for seals andaquatic birds in great varie-ty were sporting there. Butas only a very brief time re-mained for this journey, Iwas obliged to hasten length, after a labori-ous walk,I reached NorthForeland, the goal of myambition in this presenttrip. Here the view was as en-chanting as it was extens-ive. The sea around, as faras the eye could reach, wasopen; yet much ice, in thevarious forms of sconcepieces, floes, aud bergs, wasdrifting about. North Foreland pre-sented a bold front, As Ilooked down from its heights (an elevation of several hundredfeet), the sea was playing fantastic tricks, its mighty wavesdashing in quick succession against the rocky rampart by whichI was shielded, leaping upward as if to meet and greet me, say-. FKHilSHEE. 312 ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION ing, White man, we saw }rour namesake here nearly three hund-red years ago ; ivhere is he now? Nearly south of North Foreland are three islets, the nearest onefourth of a mile off shore. The largest is a quarter of a milelong, and is distinguished by a prominent rock that looks like ahuge bee-hive, with smaller ones on each side of it. The othersare quite small, being respectively about seventy and a hundredand forty fathoms in length. In every direction about here I sawrecent traces of reindeer and rabbits, also circles of stones, andother signs of Innuits having lived here long ago. The following are some of the measurements which I madewhile on this morning walk: The width of North Foreland(which is the eastern extremity of Halls Island), measuring it ashort distance back from the cliff, is about a quarter of a Island extends a mile farther eastward than Halls small-er island. T
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