SECOND EXPEDITION TO THE ICE-CAP 



mud as to be hardly palatable. Here we set up a 

 tent as one of our regular relay camps which be- 

 came known as Camp 2 or the Karkanguak Camp. 

 Just east of this camp site rise two sugarloaf- 

 shaped elevations, the higher of which lying farther 

 east is widely known by the Eskimos at Kar- 

 kanguak. On the march today while crossing the 

 broad sand flat we came upon the fresh trail of a 

 caribou cow with her calf. 



The morning of August 6 was cloudy after a 

 very slight rainfall during the night. We broke 

 camp at five-forty-five in the morning for a long 

 march and lunched on the sand flat at nine-thirty 

 surrounded by many small dunes built up about 

 willow shrubs. Here also we established a relay 

 camp which became known as Camp 3 or "Sand 

 Lake Camp" (see cut p. 153). We must now be 

 near the lost depot of provisions and we decided to 

 devote the afternoon to searching for it. Our entire 

 party of seven set off in different directions for 

 this purpose, though I planned to climb the high 

 ridge to the northward in order to get an extended 

 view toward Camp Cooley at the edge of the 

 Nordenskjold Glacier. From the crest of this 

 ridge, which was found to have an altitude of 1460 

 feet and which I named Mount James B. Ford, 

 I looked down over a grassy slope upon a lake 



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