Sport and travel in the northland of Canada . Start from LjNi-y\ ,A\iM.\(; KKOM iHi.: Ice at Um-a-lik Riviok, Gravs Bay. MELVILLE SOUND TO COPPERMINE RIVER 179 my powerful deer-stalking telescope, there was nothing tobe feared. Smooth ice, uninterrupted by any bad cracks,extended away in the distance as far as the eye couldreach. Pun immediately exclaimed that when the Huskies hadspoken of hummocky ice, they did not refer to the ice atthe west at all, but to that on the north side of HepburnIsland, on which they had been encamped during thewinter. There had evidently been some stu
Sport and travel in the northland of Canada . Start from LjNi-y\ ,A\iM.\(; KKOM iHi.: Ice at Um-a-lik Riviok, Gravs Bay. MELVILLE SOUND TO COPPERMINE RIVER 179 my powerful deer-stalking telescope, there was nothing tobe feared. Smooth ice, uninterrupted by any bad cracks,extended away in the distance as far as the eye couldreach. Pun immediately exclaimed that when the Huskies hadspoken of hummocky ice, they did not refer to the ice atthe west at all, but to that on the north side of HepburnIsland, on which they had been encamped during thewinter. There had evidently been some stupid or inten-tional lying on some ones part, but the guilty parties Idid not discover till later. I returned to camp at once, fully determined to proceedwest with as little delay as possible, but it was necessaryto wait for a day or so in order to procure a supply ofsalmon sufficient to enable us to reach the Copperminewithout having to hunt or fish on the way. I argued in this manner. Suppose that we delayed foropen water, which would at first only be a narrow lanebetween
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