6 THREE WEEKS IN HUBBARD BA Y 



shrimps in a few moments. No reindeer were seen, but shed 

 antlers testified to their occasional visits. The snow bunting 

 and ptarmigan found abundant food in the blaeberries and crow- 

 berries. The bluebeny bushes were fairly alive with little black 

 spiders. Several specimens of a hairy caterpillar and of a large 

 fly were secured. Bears had left records of their visits in numer- 

 ous seal bones, but were not seen, having gone away with the 

 floe-ice. 



The same description applies to most of the land in the vicin- 

 ity. On Inugsulik, the island next east, I found the cairn mark- 

 ing Ryder's farthest north. Great volcanic fissures, 20 to 100 

 feet wide, between vertical walls, traverse that island in all direc- 

 tions. Being for the most part level-floored, they afford easy 

 thoroughfares for travel. The level floor is evidently due to 

 glacial action, being formed of debris, sometimes angular, some- 

 times rolled so as to resemble a collection of cannon balls. Suc- 

 cessive terminal moraines have converted several of these ave- 

 nues into stairwa}^s. Though much higher than Hoyt island, 

 Inugsulik's summit also is bowlder-strewn. A brook dashes 

 down its west side, large enough to be impassable near its 

 mouth. 



CAIRN BUILT BY I.IEUT. RYDKR IN 1887 TO MARK HIS FARTHEST NORTH ON INUGSULIK 

 ISLAND. MOUNT OPE11TI IN THE DISTANCE ON THE RIGHT 



