. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. creased to a gale. Kooterenier (Miner) was myboat-steerer, and well he performed his task in passing severaldangerous places where heavy gusts came rushing down the ra-vines or over the abrupt mountains. Our boat shipped much?water, the mad waves frequently flying over us. Once a sharpgust caught us while under sail, and instantly sent the boat on-ward toward a dangerous reef of rocks on our lee. In a momentsail was down, oars out, and all hands pulling strong and rapidlyto clear the danger. Fortunately, a few moments of hard workcarried us f
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. creased to a gale. Kooterenier (Miner) was myboat-steerer, and well he performed his task in passing severaldangerous places where heavy gusts came rushing down the ra-vines or over the abrupt mountains. Our boat shipped much?water, the mad waves frequently flying over us. Once a sharpgust caught us while under sail, and instantly sent the boat on-ward toward a dangerous reef of rocks on our lee. In a momentsail was down, oars out, and all hands pulling strong and rapidlyto clear the danger. Fortunately, a few moments of hard workcarried us free, and we soon after reached Cape Ood-ho-ong andlauded. Here I took a few compass bearings, and walked about to ex-amine the spot. Many relics of Innuits were seen here. Afterremaining there an hour we again started, and proceeded up Vic-toria Bay, keeping well inshore for smoother water. The scenerywas magnificent. Stupendous cliffs rose up almost perpendicularfrom the waters edge, and mountains towered high above me, the A MOUNTAIN CAVE. 431. IIHAT IN A sides of some crumbling as if from age and the work of wintersfreezing power. One precipitous mountain, about half way upthe bay, had the whole side of it torn from summit to base, andcast down. As we approached this mountain my eye caught sight of a landed to examine it, and the moment I set foot on shore I wasstruck with amazement at the huge rocks, high up and overhang-ing my head, seemingly ready to totter and fall. The cave wasone of those made by the action of ice in winter and the sea andsun in summer. The ice had rent the rocks and fastened uponthem; the sun, with its heat, and the wind, with its power, thenwent to work, tearing up the frozen masses of ice, and forcing outthe rocks, thus leaving the mountain partly disemboweled, as I 432 ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. found it. By measurement, the cave was fifty feet long, by a width,of ten feet, and a height of fifteen to twenty feet at the
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