44 THE LOG OF THE 



I Position Scglck Bay 

 Thursday, August izth < Weather Cloudy with some rain 



I Wind Southerly 



WE got under way using the engine. It was still raining and 

 misty. Bob and John went out ahead in the "Risk" as they 

 wanted to fish the Northwest River where the Eskimos are en- 

 camped. There are three families of them there who have come up 

 from Hebron to get trout. 



We made one sounding with the hand line and got 70 fathoms. 

 I imagine that this is the average depth of the back part of these 

 fjords. They must have been a lot deeper and have extended a lot 

 further inland before the land rose. There are remarkably few small 

 auxiliary glaciers feeding into the three main ones. This makes it 

 very difficult to get up onto the land. We did not see a place where 

 one could get out except perhaps with the help of a rope. As there 

 are caribou in the valley I imagine that the slope of the very back 

 end of the fjord must be more gradual. 



We hung around waiting for Bob and John most of the forenoon. 

 I made one station off the Eskimo camp but we have too few bot- 

 tles to take many samples. Besides the bay is too cut up to give any 

 kind of a section. 



About four Bob and John returned having caught about 20 trout 

 (5 lbs. on the average) and having visited the Eskimo camp. They 

 found one man quite civilized who could talk English a little and 

 who had a collar button which he wore for their benefit. All the 

 rest were dressed in white duck shirts and heavy dirty pants. They 

 had six kayaks drawn up on the beach and one large motor boat. 



We continued out to Anchorage Cove under power and there 

 found our friends the fishermen "cutting in" after a good catch. 

 They gave us a salmon caught in their nets. The motor-boat which 

 we fixed is still running. 



