. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. nd consequently the first occasion on which I aided in abstract-ing the large, luscious eggs. In ten minutes four of us gatheredsix doze,n, and at another island, in twenty minutes, sixteen dozenand five. The eggs taken are replaced by fresh ones, as theducks lay every two or three days. Many ducks were shot, but,owing to the swift tide, only a few were obtained. The rest wereswept away. In speaking of the ice collars surrounding the islands, I maymention that if they had been simply perpendicular the difficultyin mounting them would not have
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. nd consequently the first occasion on which I aided in abstract-ing the large, luscious eggs. In ten minutes four of us gatheredsix doze,n, and at another island, in twenty minutes, sixteen dozenand five. The eggs taken are replaced by fresh ones, as theducks lay every two or three days. Many ducks were shot, but,owing to the swift tide, only a few were obtained. The rest wereswept away. In speaking of the ice collars surrounding the islands, I maymention that if they had been simply perpendicular the difficultyin mounting them would not have been so great; but they pro-jected over from ten to thirty feet, and when the tide had fallensome twenty-four feet it was no slight task to surmount managed it in some cases by extending two of our long oarsfrom the boat to the top, thus forming a substitute for a ladder. Many of the islands in Bear Sound were locked together bynatural ice bridges, several of these being arched in a most re-markable manner. 326 ARCTIC RESEARCH 6CALLNG AN ICE COLLAE IN BEAK &JCNI1. We approached to within three miles of Sylvia Island, the sameon which I and my Innuit companions had encamped on our latejourney to the dreaded land, and I could not but view it in amost friendly way when I remembered how its warm, dry rocksgave us a good bed and protection from the storms. Our excursion lasted some hours, and we returned to the tu-ples, both boats well laden with eggs. The total acquisition ofour two boats crews was one hundred dozen eggs and five eider-duck egg is nearly twice the size of a hens. At this time Captain B was absent with two boats a short distance up the bay prospecting for whales. He returned onthe 28th of June, during a fierce storm of wind and rain, and heinformed me that the trip back was made under most unfavorablecircumstances. The previous night had been passed on an islandabove Evictoon, the only shelter obtained from the storm beingthat which th
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