. The Canadian field-naturalist. The Canadian J ibld-Naturalist [Vol. XLIV tablished for the year. Nearly the whole winter was spent in traversing and mapping Foxe Land and the west coast of Baffin island north to 67° 40', near which point the courageous Hantzsch perished in the interests of ornithology. This resulted in a considerable familiarity with the great Foxe Land interior and the Foxe basin coast, and twice took me over the very region in which the Blue Goose was said to nest. In consequence, when spring arrived, I was possessed of a minute knowledge of the territory and the best rout
. The Canadian field-naturalist. The Canadian J ibld-Naturalist [Vol. XLIV tablished for the year. Nearly the whole winter was spent in traversing and mapping Foxe Land and the west coast of Baffin island north to 67° 40', near which point the courageous Hantzsch perished in the interests of ornithology. This resulted in a considerable familiarity with the great Foxe Land interior and the Foxe basin coast, and twice took me over the very region in which the Blue Goose was said to nest. In consequence, when spring arrived, I was possessed of a minute knowledge of the territory and the best route by which to reach my proposed head- quarters for the summer. On May 17 I left Cape Dorset for the Blue Goose grounds with four sledges, forty-two dogs and five Eskimo drivers, carrying sufficient food and equipment to cover a period of three months ''n the interior. We travelled along the Hudson strait coast to Chorkbak inlet, followed that to its northwestern extremity in Terreooya bay, and thence directly across Foxe Land to a point on the west coast of Baffin island north of Bowman bay. After eight days of unremitting and hard travel we reached the proposed site of our summer camp on the banks of a tundra river near Foxe basin in latitude 65" 35' North. This was named Camp Kungovik after the Eskimo name for the Blue Goose. On the 25th of May three Eskimos with all the dogs and sledges started on the long back trail to Cape Dorset. Two Eskimos were retained as assistants for the summer—Kavivow of Cape Dorset and Ashoona of Gordon bay. We were now left entirely alone with the nearest natives several hundred miles distant and in this situation we placed our entire reliance for our safe retreat from the region m a freighter-canoe with which to navigate Foxe basin and to travel by ri\rers and lakes across Foxe Land to Hudson strait the following August. Now that we were located well within the de- signated breeding area of the Blue Goose, we had but to be patient, make
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