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cliffs, 500 feet in height, that mark the abrupt termina- 

 tion of the plateau which stretches back for twenty or 

 thirty miles to the edge of the Greenland ice-cap. 



These stratified cliffs are highly interesting in their 

 massiveness, in their gradation and variation of color, 

 and in their outstanding, towering pillars formed by 

 weathering. This is the locality of the famous Tenny- 

 son Monument, so named by Kane in 1853. Long and 

 diligent search, however, failed to discover it, but we 

 found others equally as interesting and remarkable in 

 shape. 



Although he was only a young boy, I depended upon 

 Ah-now-ka and his trusty rifle for fresh meat for our- 

 selves and dogs. We descried our first seal on the ice 

 on April 21st. This he failed to secure because of the 

 impatience of his dogs, which resulted in a rush forward 

 and the consequent disappearance of the seal. 



The first evidence of the Doctor Kane party was 

 seen at Cape Inglefield; it consisted of three cairns 

 and a circular wall which the boy informed me had 

 been built by white men many, many years ago. Later, 

 other cairns were found all the way from Rensselaer 

 Harbor up to Cape Scott. We saw only one fresh bear 

 track during our short trip; we followed it for several 

 hours but without result. 



At a point about ten miles beyond Cape Leiper we 

 left a cache of food in anticipation of a future trip, and 

 started back down the coast for Anoritok. We found 

 the ground of this settlement littered with c idenc of 

 civilized man — an old cook-stove, rubber hose, a barrel, 

 pots, buckles, hinges, leather, bottles, and other rub- 

 bish. An unusually large number of old Eskimo igloos, 



eight in all, indicated that this was at one time a thriv- 

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