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of a party of bear-hunters three years before. They 

 failed to find game, and they were, as a result, in very 

 straitened circumstances. Nearly all of their dogs died 

 of starvation, and their masters only reached Etah after 

 experiencing considerable hardships. 



In front of our camp, the ice was all in motion and 

 intersected by large cracks. To drive out on its surface 

 would simply invite disaster. To drive back again to 

 the lakes and descend to the shore by a pass farther 

 west was our only alternative. 



When we reached Paget Point we were again driven 

 inland by open water, and pitched our tent well up into 

 Cadogan Inlet, hitherto unexplored and unsurveyed. 

 Its shores consist of a succession of glaciers flowing from 

 the ice-cap above through every outlet to the sea; very 

 different from what is depicted on our latest maps. In 

 fact, this whole western land seemed to be buried be- 

 neath a heavy mantle of snow and ice and to be at least 

 ten degrees colder than our temperatures at Etah. At 

 this camp on May 10th, our thermometer registered 

 fourteen below zero. This difference in temperature and 

 in depth of snow and ice between the opposite sides of 

 Smith Sound, one uninhabitable and the other an Arctic 

 oasis, is undoubtedly due to the fact that on the east 

 side we have a northward flowing current of water and a 

 downward and outward current of air, which is heated 

 adiabatically in its descent from a 10,000-foot altitude. 

 On the western side, we find hugging the shore the Arc- 

 tic pack, flowing southward from the Polar Sea down 

 through Kennedy Channel, Robeson Channel, and 

 Smith Sound; and comparatively no, or very little, 

 wind, as is evidenced by the large amount of deep, soft 

 snow in the fiords. 



