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out onto a sandy point, near which a tumultuous brook 

 foamed down the hillside. We were then just opposite 

 Ford's house, and the "Brave" lay moored in the shelter of 

 a projecting point near it. Our distance for the morning" 

 was about eight miles, and we came to the end of our long 

 tramp at 10.15. We gladly threw down our packs, fired two 

 shots, and soon again two more, were answered by a flash 

 from the ship, and then were soon again on board. 



It thus took us just seven days to complete our trip. 

 Our progress was naturally slow. The walking was, for the 

 most part, over loosely aggregated heaps of stone that filled 

 the narrow valleys and covered the mountain tops ; our packs 

 were fairly heavy; and our thin seal-hide native boots, 

 adopted because of the much-worn hobnails of our own 

 shoes, were ill-adapted to so long and rough a journey and 

 needed frequent repairing. We estimated the distance that 

 we had traversed as about 30 miles by water and 90 to 95 by 

 land. The distance from our landing place on Kangerdluk- 

 soak (Hebron) Bay to Saglek Bay is about 22 miles; from 

 the north shore of Saglek Bay to Ramah very nearly 35 

 miles; from Ramah to Nachvak Bay, at the point where we 

 came out, nearly 20 miles; and along the shore of Nachvak 

 to a point opposite Ford's house about 18 miles. The 

 highest point we reached was 2,150 feet above the sea. We 

 cHmbed up in all and again descended some 11,000 to 12,000 

 feet. In its general topographical appearance and formation 

 the country we passed over was of two kinds: surrounding 

 the bays on which Hebron and Ramah are situated, the 

 mountains rise more gradually and to lesser heights ; on the 

 borders of the fiords of Saglek and Nachvak they are very 

 lofty, and rise often in perpendicular cliffs directly out of the 



