OUR FIRST LANDINGS 47 
that from the sea it looks like a river entry; and Sawel- 
jew, who no doubt only saw it from the sea, was very 
naturally deceived; or, if not Saweljew, the navigator 
who named the place. 
There were two small entries, the southern of which 
was quite closed by a bar, and the northern almost so, 
except that it was crossed by a little stream which ran 
out of a lagoon which lay behind the cliff. This lagoon 
was filled with brackish water. Into it ran a small snow 
stream across which I stepped. In it I found a lump of 
red granite and a small half nodule of iron. The cliffs 
at this point were higher than we found them to the 
southward, and were overhung with beds of peat. 
Just above the lagoon was a sandy rise. On this I 
found a small sleigh. It was in pieces, but I easily fitted 
it together. I thought it was a dog sleigh. But the 
mate, when I showed it to him on the ship, assured 
me that he had seen the Eskimos of Smith’s Sound use 
just such another when at their sport. They would, he 
said, fasten some green thing to it, and then, lying down 
flat on the belly, push it along before them, so that 
behind this cover they could approach their quarry. All 
of which I found to be equally true of the Samoyeds 
when I came to know these people. My find was, then, 
a stalking sleigh. 
I did not go very far, because I was much interested 
in some small insects; particularly in a sort of little 
sandfly with very big eyes. This fly advanced by hop- 
