THE CLIFF OF UMANAK 89 
crumpled the rocks of which the Umanak moun- 
tain remains as a detached and magnificent bastion 
that in the course of ages has been fashioned into 
its present form. The photograph reproduced in 
Fig. 43 shows the view looking north-east from 
Kook, an uninhabited part of the north coast of 
the Nigssuaq Peninsula famous for fossil plants 
(Cretaceous); it lies to the south-west of Umanak 
where the dotted line bends towards the coast 
(Um., Map B). Themast of the motor-boat ‘Angut’ 
is between the cliff of Umanak, on the face of 
which the reversed fold of black schist is faintly 
seen sloping towards the right, and the bold 
headland of the island of Sagdliarusek composed 
of a pink crystalline rock. The Umanak cliff 
is five miles away and the island to the right 
nine miles. Near the base of the cliff is the Settle- 
ment of Umanak (Fig. 44) with the native huts 
and timber houses built on the small level patches 
among the rounded hummocky rocks which form 
a massive plinth to the pyramid that dominates 
the island. A motor-boat is at anchor in the 
sheltered bay and beyond the smooth water of 
the fjord, sprinkled with glistening bergs, is the 
massive side of Sagdliarusek Island, a part of which 
is seen also in Fig. 43. As we lay at night off the 
coast the howling of dogs in chorus as they prowled 
over the rocks and the recurrent boom of breaking 
icebergs seemed in harmony with the spirit of the 
place. On the following day we were suddenly 
transported to civilisation. The Inspector for 
North Greenland arrived in his motor-boat and 
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