EXPLORING IN THE CARIBOU COUNTRY 



along a faint trail of caribou hunters which keeps 

 near the brook and follows a series of beautifully- 

 formed coast terraces extending up to an elevation 

 of 970 feet. At about 1200 feet of elevation the 

 trail passed over a divide and we looked out on a 

 beautiful picture in the center of which lay a lake 

 probably forty miles long extending to the east- 

 ward under frowning precipices. Far down the 

 lake rose a striking peak of unusual form which 

 we named the "Nipple", and farther on another 

 toward the inland-ice which we named "The 

 Battlement". We went down to the shore of this 

 lake, which is at an altitude of 1040 feet, and com- 

 ing back up the slope camped at six o'clock on a 

 small lake some 200 feet higher up. Here after we 

 had our supper of erbswurst, ducks settled on the 

 lake and Marius succeeded in shooting three. The 

 large lake we named Lake J. P. Koch after the 

 splendid explorer who accomplished the wide cross- 

 ing of Greenland in 1913. 



The next morning, the eleventh, we continued 

 southward to the shore of the lake of which a long 

 arm goes oif to the southwestward. This arm we 

 followed keeping well above it on the slope and 

 setting up our plane table for sights at frequent 

 intervals. Toward midday we halted and Marius 

 was sent down to the lake for water while Potter 



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