Sport and travel in the northland of Canada . r seal-oil lamps. Looking back on the journey along the Arctic coastwe had good reason, I thought, to congratulate ourselvesOn our good luck. It was certainly a disappointment to be now told thatour attempt to reach the mouth of the Coppermine Riveron the ice would have to be abandoned, but about thisinformation I was somewhat sceptical, and determined tosatisfy myself the following day. At an early hour on July 3 I started with Pun as com-panion to inspect the condition of the ice to the across the mouth of the Uni-a-lik River whichh
Sport and travel in the northland of Canada . r seal-oil lamps. Looking back on the journey along the Arctic coastwe had good reason, I thought, to congratulate ourselvesOn our good luck. It was certainly a disappointment to be now told thatour attempt to reach the mouth of the Coppermine Riveron the ice would have to be abandoned, but about thisinformation I was somewhat sceptical, and determined tosatisfy myself the following day. At an early hour on July 3 I started with Pun as com-panion to inspect the condition of the ice to the across the mouth of the Uni-a-lik River whichhad broken away the ice for some distance from its mouth,but was too deep for wading, we landed on the east shoreof the peninsula, which extends in a north-easterly direc-tion towards Hepburn Island. This peninsula or pro-montory goes by the name of IJgi-uk among the natives ofthe Arctic coast. At one place it is quite narrow. Fromits western side we obtained a splendid view of the ice tothe west. From what I could make of it, looking through. Start from LjNi-y\ Rivkr.
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