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though in either case they could not make tracks 

 fast enough. On one occasion we were enjoying a 

 mid- day siesta on the ice when we were startled by a 

 ridiculous series of noises, commencing with an 

 avalanche of rocks and stones from the moraines as 

 though dislodged by a bear walking past, and ending 

 up in a loud whirr of wings, making the lieutenant's 

 heart dangle in his throat, when we saw not a bear, 

 or an eagle, but a beautiful little iridescent humming 

 bird, the very last thing in creation we should have 

 expected to find in a land of glaciers. We soon found 

 ourselves marching upon solid ice. The terminal 

 moraines of these glaciers were of enormous extent 

 veritable mountains of loose rocks 8 to 10 miles 

 in breadth, and underneath them lay the glacier ice 

 from 3 to 600 feet in thickness. One glacier we 

 named the Great Agassiz Glacier, another the Great 

 Guyot Glacier, another the Tyndall Glacier, and 

 another of enormous area situated, as previously men- 

 tioned, farther north, Behring's Great Glacier, as that 

 portion of the coast was the first portion seen by him 

 after quitting Behring Sea. A large lake we named 

 Lake Castani, after the president of the Italian Geo- 

 graphical Society. 



On the 23rd of July we lost the professor, but found 

 him again on the following day. The Indians showed 

 signs of insubordination. On the 24th we camped in 

 a small patch of timber near the edge of the glacier. 

 Close by, some reservoir in the ice had burst its 

 bounds and the rush of water was carrying away 



