THE SUMMER EXPEDITION TO THE ICE-CAP 



their needs. For them a very small tent sufficed, 

 since they slept curled up together like dogs 

 without any blankets whatever. Before leaving 

 our camp on the Maligiakfjord they shot several 

 gulls and made a hearty meal of them. 



In the late afternoon of July 25th David Olsen's 

 little motor-sloop, the Kanotok, arrived off our 

 camp, and as soon as he landed, our plans were 

 made to get off on the flood tide early the next 

 morning in tow of the Kanotok as far as the head 

 of the fjord. Unfortunately we were an hour 

 later than we had expected to get away, and Olsen 

 was obliged to leave us far below the head of the 

 fjord, from where we had to row hard against an 

 ebb tide and fast shallowing water. This meant 

 two and one half hours rowing in the umiak before 

 we reached the first rapid in the river which flows 

 to the fjord from Taserssuak. At these rapids 

 there was a summer fishing camp of Eskimos and 

 we were able to get help in portaging the heavy 

 umiak past the rapids. When we had left these 

 rapids behind we encountered others which gave 

 us great difficulty, but by taking out some of the 

 load and carrying out a combined towing, poling 

 and paddling operation we by late afternoon were 

 past the last rapid and able to make our camp 

 near a fresh water stream which enters near the 



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