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along the fiord. It was afterwards learned that this post, though 

 it still shows on most of the charts, and is mentioned in the New- 

 foundland and Labrador Coast Pilot book, had been abandoned 

 about 20 years ago. 



The water was too deep to anchor off the site of the old post, so 

 a run of about 4 miles seaward was made and an anchorage was 

 found in 11 fathoms at 5.41 p. m. near the eastern end of what 

 might be called the Narrows of Nachvak Bay. 



The evening of July 18 and Sunday, July 19, were spent by most 

 of the officers and crew climbing about on the surrounding moun- 

 tains. Many photographs were taken; geological and botanical 

 specimens were gathered; and a few fish were caught. Ashore we 

 found the air warm and quiet in the sunshine. It was calm and 

 around 60° F., even up to the 3,200-foot level. At the same time 

 there was a constant raw breeze around 48° F. blowing inland over 

 the surface of the fiord. We noticed on the ship that this indraft 

 increased during the day and moderated at night. 



The country was dry and rocky, but there were numerous streams 

 and waterfalls tumbling into the fiord from the melting snow patches 

 that still existed in sheltered spots. One of the falls on the north 

 side of the fiord and about midway between the anchorage and the 

 old Hudson Bay Co. post carried a considerable volume of water. 

 On July 20 the ship was watered from a nearby small stream with 

 dories, although the constant strong breeze blowing up the fiord 

 made this watering difficult. All the streams flowing into Nachvak 

 Bay apparently furnish water of excellent quality. 



At 9.30 a. m. on July 21 an attempt was made to get to sea. The 

 weather was bright and sunny over the warm mountains, but along 

 the coast the fog was dense because of light but general easterly 

 winds. The fog pouring into the entrance of Nachvak Bay looked like 

 a Greenland glacier discharging from the inland ice. It was deemed 

 inadvisable to attempt to run past the numerous dangers in the 

 entrance, so the ship was anchored in Tin-Ya-Vik Anchorage, a deep 

 bight along the south shore of the fiord not far from the sea. This 

 anchorage is more sheltered from the wind and provides also much 

 better holding ground than the narrows of the bay where we first 

 anchored. We observed that at high tide here fresh water can be 

 run through a hose into dories from the small stream entering the 

 southwest comer of Tin-Ya-Vik bight. At half tide or low water, 

 because of bowlder-strewn flats, watering is more difficult here than 

 at the narrows. 



The weather was foggier than ever along the coast on the 22d, 

 though we could see that it was still sunny and bright over the inland 

 mountains. By 8.20 p. m. the fog lifted somewhat from the water 

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