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Our shoe was the Tubbs shoe from Norway, Maine, 

 forty-eight by twelve, beautifully made and well adapted 

 for dog-team work and the compact, wind-blown snows of 

 the Arctic. For this shore, however, a wider shoe would 

 have been preferable. From Paget Point to Clarence 

 Head and back, snow-shoes made our work possible. 

 After our experiences there, I can readily understand why 

 this stretch of coast has never been surveyed. 



On the 11th we pitched our tent upon the ice-foot of 

 a Look headland which resembled, from a few miles 

 north, a magnificent high island, which proved upon an 

 examination to be connected with the mainland by a 

 flat, narrow neck. Our sledges were no sooner un- 

 packed than Arklio, from the summit of a high rock, 

 descried a polar bear one mile to the south. The fun 

 was on, and away they went chatting like boys out of 

 school. Three hours later, E-took-a-shoo came gallop- 

 ing in astride of the bear. The bear was dead, however, 

 and lashed to his sledge. This was one of the days 

 when we sat up for twenty-four hours, as we often did 

 in order to get a series of midnight-sun pictures, also 

 sights for longitude, latitude, and compass variation. 



As we left this camp and drove south, I noticed what 

 appeared to be an enormous glacier stretching almost to 

 Cape Faraday. A closer examination later proved this 

 glacier to be at least twenty miles along its face, the 

 second largest in size in the whole Smith Sound region. 

 This I have named the American Museum Glacier. The 

 surface of the ice was a perfect network of bear tracks. 

 Our dogs, with tails tightly curled and short, quick yelps, 

 led us on and along the face of this glacier for four hours 

 in pursuit of a bear. Far ahead I could see Arklio vigor- 

 ously pumping both arms, which, translated from the 



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