2 THREE WEEKS IN HUBBARD BAY 



on his seventh Greenland voyage, in the summer of 1897, to spend 

 three weeks in exploration in an interesting field. 



Lieut. Ryder, of the Danish navy, explored in 1887 the hay 

 north of Wilcox head (which I have called Hubbard bay), and 

 there found numerous Eskimo remains. The present Eskimos 

 of Upernivik and Tasiusak never until the spring of 1897 ex- 



PLAN OF ARCTIC EXPLORATION FROM A BASK NEAR JONES SOUND OR AT CAPE SABINE 



tended their hunting trips beyond the great rookery of Cape 

 Shackleton, while the Cape York tribe, according to Lieut. Peary, 

 never go farther south than Melville Monument. This leaves a 

 gap of 140 miles. Inspector Ohlsen, at Upernivik (to whom I 

 am much indebted for valuable assistance) told me that the 

 Eskimos of that colony had a tradition that their ancestors used 

 to go hunting near Wilcox head, but ceased to do so about 200 



