. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. e bay we found abundance of hum-mocky ice, and the snow-wreaths were numerous, abrupt, andhigh. A few minutes before noon we drew into a small bay thatextended on toward the point I sought to reach. With great so-licitude, I watched that part of the heavens in which the sun , to my deep regret, the thick clouds were as a veil betweenmy eyes and it. I had my instruments in readiness in case thesun should show itself for a few moments. If I could have gottwo solar observations, keeping correct account of the time elaps-ing between, by wh
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. e bay we found abundance of hum-mocky ice, and the snow-wreaths were numerous, abrupt, andhigh. A few minutes before noon we drew into a small bay thatextended on toward the point I sought to reach. With great so-licitude, I watched that part of the heavens in which the sun , to my deep regret, the thick clouds were as a veil betweenmy eyes and it. I had my instruments in readiness in case thesun should show itself for a few moments. If I could have gottwo solar observations, keeping correct account of the time elaps-ing between, by which to obtain accurately the hour angle, Ishould have done so, for thus I could have determined my actuallatitude; but the clouds were too thick for the suns rays to pen-etrate them. I kept, however, a careful account of my courseand of the distance made, by which I determined the latitude ofKingaite coast where I struck it. As the dogs turned up the narrow bay leading to the point ofland we were making, I was delighted to see the face of an abut-. VISIT TO GRINNELL GLACIER. 519 ting glacier, which fully proved the truth of my anticipations thatthere were iceberg discharges on Kingaite side. At noon ourprogress was arrested by the glacier, which seemed to smile a de-fiance— thus far, and no farther. Here, by this crystal wall, I stood, in admiration and awe be-holding its beauty and grandeur. My Innuit companion seemedsatisfied and gratified in witnessing the effect it had upon me. Iturned and took a look seaward. A few degrees of opening be-tween the points of land leading into the harbor in which we weregave a view bounded only by the sea horizon. My quickenedthoughts almost made me exclaim, Tell us, time-aged crystalmount, have you locked in your mirror chambers any images ofwhite mans ships, that sailed up these waters near three centuriesago? This train of fancy-painting was soon dissipated by thesubstantial reality of a lunch on cold rock pemmican and gold-dust (Bordens
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