CHAPTER XVIII 



BOAT JOURNEY INTO INGLEFIELD GULF 



The Sculptured Cliffs of Karnah- Luxuriant Vegetation- Storn.y Weather - 

 Anniversary Camp-My KahlilWh- Crossing ^^-, ^" V"t % " r e^ 

 The Shelter of Acaden.y Bay-Fury of the Arctic Wmds-An Iceberg Lrek- 

 ,,,ter-We reach Karnah again - Rounding Cape Cleveland - F.ghtn.g for 

 Life and Shelter — Safe at Redcliffe. 



The weather was not very encouraging as we started from 

 Redcliffe House on Tuesday, August 9, the strong wind of 

 the two previous days having brought up heavy storm-clouds, 

 which now hid the sun and hung threateningly overhead. It 

 was just about noon when we left the beach at Redcliffe. the 

 light " Marv Peary " shooting rapidly along with the strokes of 

 the six Eskimo boatmen, and in a short time we had rounded 

 Cape Cleveland and started eastward up the gulf. The scene 

 before us was very different from what it had been ten months 

 previously, when we made our first attempt. There were then 

 numerous pans and streams of ice. with the new ice rapidly 

 cementing them together; the land itself was covered with 

 snow, and the ice-foot had already commenced to form on 

 the beach. Now there was only an occasional fragment of 

 ice, though the great bergs were numerous. The mountains 



