50 VOYAGE TO THE POLAIl SEA. July 



CHAPTER IV. 



HARTSTENE BAY — LIFE-BOAT COVE — ' POLARIS ' WINTER-QUARTERS 



LITTLETON ISLAND — ETAH — CAPE ISABELLA — PAYER HARBOUR — 

 CAPE SABINE — HAYES SOUND — ALEXANDRA HAVEN — TWIN GLACIER 

 VALLEY ESKIMO MIGRATION. 



While we were steering close under Cape Alexander 

 a breeze sprang up from the northward and retarded 

 our progress, but by 7 a.m., of the 28th, we were at 

 anchor in twelve fathoms on the north side of Hart- 

 stene Bay. The anchorage I selected was a bay on 

 the southern side of Sunrise Point, a very convenient 

 halting-place, but only fit for use while northerly or 

 easterly winds prevail. Generally speaking the shore 

 was bordered by an ice-foot, but this was not quite 

 continuous ; a number of detached heavy pieces of 

 ice, the remains of hummocks formed during previous 

 gales, lay aground in thirty feet of water, pointing 

 out the shallows, while many rocks, both above and 

 below water, studded the shore. A stream of some 

 volume, which drains the valley lying north of Dodge's 

 Mountains, empties itself into the bay. 



The red gneiss, which forms the basement on 

 which rest the sedimentary strata and basalts of 

 Foulke Fiord, forms the shore-line from the settlement 

 of Etah. Northwards at Cape Ohlsen and Life-Boat 



