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the thick clouds, the other curving behind it in deep shadow. 

 From these cHffs banks of thin fog were blown out, against 

 which a rainbow was formed, arching from the mission house 

 entirely across the mouth of the bay. Thence we went 

 straight down the remaining 800 feet or thereabouts, reached 

 the beach at 5.30, and fired two shots to summon a boat from 

 the other side. Our distance thus far for the day we esti- 

 mated at about 17 miles. While we were waiting, Adams 

 examined the rock formations near the shore. He found 

 them everywhere composed of slate, containing quartz veins 

 and much iron pyrites. 



A couple of small Eskimo boys soon appeared in a boat, 

 and rowed us across the mile-wide bay to the mission house. 

 We were warmly welcomed by the missionaries, who had been 

 wondering greatly over our approach. They were so urgent 

 in their hospitality, so intelHgent and sympathetic in their 

 interest in our investigations, and the warm and comfortable 

 shelter they gave us was in such welcome contrast with the 

 conditions of the previous days, that we remained with them 

 until the middle of the following afternoon. 



At Ramah we secured an additional guide, Philippus by 

 name, for the rest of the way. We left the mission at 2.20 

 p. M. of August 24, were rowed about four miles to near 

 the head of Nullatartok or Ramah Bay, and thence started 

 again northward. Our route was at first up easy, grassy 

 slopes, then westward around a high crest, with one of the 

 sharp peaks we had seen in a group of three the day before 

 blocking our direct way to the north. We circled the latter, 

 gradually rising, with a few short descents, into wide and 

 fertile valleys adorned with lakes or watercourses. We were 

 still on shaly ground until toward the last, when we had a 



