GLACIAL FRINGE OF GRANT LAND i8i 



here, I hope to feel that I am really straightened out 

 for my trip. 



Our next camp west of Point Moss was off Challenger 

 Point. The march was made in fine weather and we 

 encountered for the first time, what later became a 

 constant and striking feature of the glacial fringe, the 

 long, prairie-like swells of its surface. My wind was 

 improving, the swelling in my legs going down and I 

 felt that I was getting in shape again. As we came 

 along, we kept a sharp look-out on the shore with the 

 glasses for musk-oxen, but did not see any. Just 

 before turning in, a dark spot under Columbia ahead 

 of us had every appearance of being a musk-ox asleep. 

 The snow at this camp was three feet deep. 



We left the camp off Challenger Point at ten at 

 night and headed straight for the point of Cape Colum- 

 bia, studying the shore very carefully with the glasses. 

 At last our dark object of the day before was located 

 again, a musk-ox feeding on a little plateau, and I 

 went away at once with Koolootingwah and two dogs 

 and secured the animal with one shot, after taking a 

 number of photos at short range. 



From the elevation where he was, open water could 

 be seen extending all along the edge of the ice-foot. 

 The swells which we traversed coming from Point Moss, 

 showed up beautifully from here as parallel swells fol- 

 lowing the main contour of the shore. When the two 

 men came up with the sledges I found that they had 

 utilised their time while waiting, in locating four more 

 musk-oxen farther inland. 



Examined from our elevation with the glass, we 

 saw that there were six. We went away after these, 



