NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



eaten with improvised chop-sticks, we started out 

 again. We crossed fresh caribou tracks and came 

 to the edge of the inland-ice near where there were 

 two glacier tongues which received the names of 

 Russell and Leverett Glaciers. Without success 

 we attempted to scale the precipitous front of the 

 Russell Glacier which was characterized by loose 

 blocks and falling fragments. We then forded 

 the wide gravel flat with its braided streams in 

 front of the Russell Glacier, going over our high 

 boots in doing so. We then ascended a steep slope 

 off the south wall of the glacier, and coming to a 

 small lake close to the edge of the ice we now found 

 a place where we could get up upon the ice. 



Over this glacier we advanced a mile reaching an 

 altitude of nearly 1300 feet. The ice is here 

 covered with stony debris, is deeply crevassed, and 

 we saw one large "mill" where the surface stream 

 descended into the glacier. We now turned back 

 and coming down off the ice descended the slope, 

 again forded the sand flat, and crossing heavy 

 sand dunes reached the little lake where was our 

 camp on the inward journey and which we had 

 called Goose Lake. This time we followed down 

 the Watson River where it passes the Karkanguak, 

 again made diligent search for the lost depot, but 

 again without success. Here the river rushes 



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