OUR FIRST LANDINGS 47 



that from the sea it looks like a river entry ; and Sawel- 

 jew, who no doubt only saw it from the sea, was very 

 naturally deceived ; or, if not Saweljew, the navigator 

 who named the place. 



There were two small entries, the southern of which 

 was quite closed by a bar, and the northern almost so, 

 except that it was crossed by a little stream which ran 

 out of a lagoon which lay behind the cliff. This lagoon 

 was filled with brackish water. Into it ran a small snow 

 stream across which I stepped. In it I found a lump of 

 red granite and a small half nodule of iron. The cliffs 

 at this point were higher than we found them to the 

 southward, and were overhung with beds of peat. 



Just above the lagoon was a sandy rise. On this I 

 found a small sleigh. It was in pieces, but I easily fitted 

 it together. I thought it was a dog sleigh. But the 

 mate, when I showed it to him on the ship, assured 

 me that he had seen the Eskimos of Smith's Sound use 

 just such another when at their sport. They would, he 

 said, fasten some green thing to it, and then, lying down 

 flat on the belly, push it along before them, so that 

 behind this cover they could approach their quarry. All 

 of which I found to be equally true of the Samoyeds 

 when I came to know these people. My find was, then, 

 a stalking sleigh. 



I did not go very far, because I was much interested 

 in some small insects ; particularly in a sort of little 

 sandfly with very big eyes. This fly advanced by hop- 



