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shone warm, and that peculiar stiUness which is found only in 

 the Arctic regions was conducive to long sleep. 



After supper we explored the little island and found the 

 plateau covered with the tracks of deer and ptarmigan, but 

 we could descry no living creature. The view from the sum- 

 mit was very fine. We could see down the sound as far as 



Herbert Island, and 

 almost up to the head 

 of Inglefield Gulf ; on 

 the right the eye took 

 in the greater part of 

 Academy Bay, and 

 on the left in the dis- 

 tance towered Mts. 

 Putnam, Dal}-, and 

 <»»_ - — ^ Adams. 



^^ Arriving at Nuna- 



tochsoah, we spent 

 about an hour in skir- 



Mount Dalv. ... 



mishmg about the 

 place, Tawanah taking us to various caches containing seal- 

 skins, both tanned and untanned, and two caches containing 

 young seals, about twenty-two in all. Kudlah, too, had a few 

 seals and skins, and both men were anxious to barter their 

 possessions with Mr. Peary for a knife and a saw. 



