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vessel zigzagged its way through the ice floes that filled the 

 whole horizon and gave a strange, wintry aspect to the whole 

 scene. 



The hope of the captain was that, turning away from the 

 coast near Upernavik, he might be able to effect the "middle pas- 

 sage" across Melville Bay, direct to Cape York, but early on the 

 morning of the 20th, after about a day's struggle with the ice, the 

 attempt was abandoned, and the Falcon turned back toward the 

 coast. All day she worked about through the leads, or bunted 



Fig. 2. Icebergs of Cape York ; still held in the bay ice that remains attached 

 to the shore. The point of view is about two miles off Cape York, which lies a little 

 to the left of the picture. Cape York Eskimos in the foreground. 



her way from one to another, in the endeavor to reach the more 

 persistent lanes of water that are usually developed between the 

 moving ice of the bay and the stationary ice that still remains 

 attached to the shore. Success in this was reached during the 

 evening, and the sail of the 21st was a continuous delight, as 

 the vessel followed a broad lane concentric with the coast of 

 Melville Bay, affording a rare opportunity of studying with our 

 glasses the undulating slope of the inland ice that forms the 

 horizon throughout almost the entire circuit of the bay. From 

 the extensive ice walls at its marafin numerous larare icebergs had 



