248 HUNTING WITH THE ESKIMOS 



before observed. Add to this the maze of icebergs 

 and rafted ice which mighty powers had piled in hills 

 hundreds of feet high stretching out over Smith 

 Sound; the towering Greenland mountains behind; 

 endless reaches of white, everywhere encrusted with 

 prismatic frost flakes and sparkling in the light of 

 coming day a wilderness rugged and repellent, and 

 at the same time possessing a unique, transcendent 

 beauty that attracted and fascinated. 



We were very happy in the thought that the night 

 had passed and the glorious old sun had actually re- 

 turned again with his life-giving, hope-giving, in- 

 spiring power. 





