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auroral display was some compensation for our wakefulness. 

 Its mild light swept over the heavens, for the most part taking 

 the form of curved vertical bands, changing and wavering. 



Our third day, August 21st, was another one of bright, 

 warm sunshine. At 8.30, just before our start, the tempera- 

 ture was 63°. From the crest of the hill, which we soon 

 reached, we had a beautiful view toward Saglek Bay. Just 

 below us was a wide, level stretch, reaching from the foot of 

 our slope to Pangnertok, a branch of Saglek. To our right 

 a brook tumbled down, and to the left a considerable river 

 emptied into the head of Pangnertok. Beyond lay the 

 waters of the bay, from whose further shore rose up the roof- 

 like mountains we had first seen the previous day, with their 

 almost vertical sides seamed with gullies and bare of vege- 

 tation. On the flat near the mouth of the river was an Es- 

 kimo encampment. We hastened down and reached it at 

 ten o'clock. The little settlement consisted of two canvas 

 tents and two skin topeks. The fishermen who live in them 

 are Hebron Eskimos, spending the summer here for the sake 

 of the trout in the nearby streams. They welcomed us with 

 much hospitality, invited us into their tents, and otherwise 

 showed their interest and good-will. It was nearly 2.30 

 before the tide had risen sufficiently to allow their trap-skifif 

 to get out of the river into the bay. Then we set out and 

 had a delightful sail, down Pangnertok under the steep face 

 of Mt. Pinguksoak on the further shore, past Kajuktok, the 

 bay into which empties the river crossed yesterday, into the 

 main bay, and across it past the islands of Aulatsivik and 

 Saglek to the northern shore. The scenery of the bay was 

 strikingly beautiful, far surpassing in its wild grandeur 

 any that we had seen. The mountains were everywhere 



