686 THE VOYAGE OF THE JEANNETTE. 



which we were on the 26th, and upon which it would 

 have been impossible to land. It certainly looked 

 tempting then. 



Three hours after leaving camp he came to a valley 

 through which a stream of water flowed. It was here 

 that he found the musk ox(?) horn and a track of a 

 bear. Here the ice-foot ended, and he took to the 

 beach, but finding the shore becoming bold and steep, 

 also, he came back half a mile and camped. He en- 

 countered at 'this place a large amount of drift-wood, a 

 great mass of it sticking out of the earth like a dock 

 fallen to decay. A hundred feet above the sea-level, 

 and five hundred feet up the slope, was more of this 

 drift-wood, probably carried there in the course of 

 years by the gradual upheaval of the land. Next 

 morning, August 1st, he left the sled and gear, and 

 started with Aneguin and Alexey, and the dogs, to try 

 to cross the mountain. After ascending about one 

 thousand feet (at which point he picked up some mar- 

 ine shells) he was shut in by thick fog and soon after 

 returned. He next attempted to cross the foot of the 

 big glacier, but after going about three miles was 

 obliged to give it up. He found cracks in the glacier 

 one foot wide, but widening below, and he could hear 

 the roar of water several hundred feet beneath him. 

 Large patches of crimson snow were abundant on the 

 ice-foot. 



A N. W. gale has sprung up during the forenoon, 

 and is blowing the ice off shore, where the land ice 

 ends beyond the Eookery. Much water is consequently 

 between us and the pack west and southwest, and 

 Nindemann reports that from the Rookery he could see 

 large lanes of water making to the southwest, and the 

 ice was constantly separating to form new ones. Chipp 

 ought to come back riving at this rate. 



