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excursion. When first the mass separates from^ the 
land-herg or glacier, it is accompanied hy a large quan- 
tity of disengaged fragments, with all varieties of de- 
tritus ; and during the alternate risings and sinkings 
that follow the fall into the sea, a great deal of this is 
caught hy the emerging surface of the herg, and ad- 
heres to it. I noticed valleys, where the subsequent 
roll: had rounded the masses, and grouped them into 
soniething resembling bowlder-drift. I had seen sim- 
ilar valleys in some of the large bergs of Duneira Bay, 
supplying a bed for temporary water-streams, in which 
the bowlders were beautifully rounded, and arranged 
in true moraine fashion. I have given a sketch of one 
of these ; it faces this chapter. 
Off Storoe, a white fox (O. lagopus) came to us on 
the loose icb; his legs and the tip of his tail were 
black. He was the first we had seen on the Green- 
land coast. 
He was followed the next day by a party of Esqui- 
maux, who visited us from Proven, dragging their ka- 
yacks and themselves over seven miles of the pack, 
and then paddling merrily on board. For two glasses 
6f rum and a sorrj'^ ration of salt-pork, they kept turn- 
ing somersets by the dozen, making their egg-shell 
skiffs revolve sideways by a touch of the paddle, and 
hardly disappearing tinder the water before they were 
heads up again, and at the gangway to swallow their 
reward. 
The inshore ice opened on the thirtieth, and toward 
evening we left the hospitable moorage of our iceberg, 
and made for the low, rounded rocks, which the Hosky 
pointed out to us as the seat of the settlement. ' The 
boats were out to tow us clear of the floating rubbish, 
•J'as the light and variable winds made their help nec- 
