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at the head of Robertson Bay, on the northern shore of Inglefield Gulf, 

 West Greenland. It was here that Verhoeff, the meteorologist of one of 

 the Peary Expeditions, while trying to cross the glacier alone, lost his 

 life in September of 1892. The sea wall of the glacier is from 150 to 

 200 feet high, but the ice shelves out beneath the water, where the buoy- 

 ancy of the sea breaks off parts which float away as icebergs. This 

 birth of icebergs at the water's edge of a glacier often causes waves 

 thirty or forty feet in height, miles in extent, and attended by volleys of 

 thunderous reports that are terrifying in the ears of the Eskimo. Each 

 of these glaciers is an arm of the inland ice cap of Greenland, a mighty 

 sheet submerging mountains and valleys to a depth of 5,000 feet or 

 more. 



The Third or Southern Panel — Cape York, a Summer Home of the 



Innuit. 



The scene depicted is at Cape York, a summer home of the Innuit, 

 at the head of INlelville Bay. Here the Innuit, or Arctic Highlander, as 

 he was misnamed by Sir James Ross, is first met by those visiting the 

 Arctics. The painting gives a view of Cape York looking toward the 

 north. 



In the foreground is the camp, where an Innuit leans over a harp- 

 seal which he has killed and is about to cut up, while his dogs are 

 watching for some stray pieces of meat. This man is clothed in bear- 

 skin trousers and a hooded jacket made of about seventy auk skins, the 

 feathers being turned next to the body. He is wearing boots of seal- 

 skin. 



To the left in the camp is a girl of about seven years, painted from 

 a sketch made by the artist in 1804. She is clothed in small trousers 

 of fox skin and an upper hooded garment, also of fox skin, and wears 

 boots of sealskin, reaching to the thighs. She is attending a fire of 

 moss and blubber, over which blood soup is Ijeing prepared, while 

 guarding from the dogs a piece of meat on the ground at her right. 

 Behind the girl are two sealskin tents (tupekhs) from one of which 

 a young woman is emerging. 



Beyond the tents are mountains towering 1500 to 3000 feet above the 

 camp. The summits of these mountains are frequently obscured by 

 dense fogs, from which come continually the wild cries of innumerable 

 multitudes of kittiwake auUs and little auks. 



