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tunah, — " Our people have but a few more suns to 

 live ! " Would they all come up to Etah if I should 

 return, and stay there, and bring guns and hunters? 

 His answer was a prompt, " Yes." He told me, as 

 Kalutunah had done before, that Etah was the best 

 hunting-place on the coast, only the ice broke up so 

 soon and was always dangerous ; while Whale Sound 

 was frozen during nearly all the year, and gave the 

 hunters greater security. 



After returning to the schooner, I pulled up into 

 Barden Bay, taking with me the magnetic and sur- 

 veying instruments and facilities for completing my 

 botanical and other collections, and for photographing 

 the fine scenery of the bay. Landing on its north 

 shore, we found the hill-side covered in many places 

 with a richer green sward than I had ever seen north 

 of Upernavik, except once on a former occasion at 

 Northumberland Island. The slope was girdled with 

 the same tall cliffs which everywhere meet the eye 

 along this coast ; and the same summer streams of 

 melted snow tumbled over them, and down the slope 

 from the mountain sides. The day was quite calm 

 and the sky almost cloudless. The sun shone broadly 

 upon us, and the temperature was 51". Immense 

 schools of whales and walrus, with an occasional seal, 

 were sporting in the water ; flocks of sea-fowl went 

 careering about the icebergs and through the air, 

 and myriads of butterflies fluttered among the flow- 

 ers ; while from the opposite side of the bay an im- 

 mense glacier,^ whose face was almost buried in the 

 sea, carried the eye along a broad and winding valley, 

 up steps of ice of giant height, and over smooth 

 plains of whiteness, around the base of the hills, until 



' I have named this glacier in honor of Professor John Tyndall. 

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