NOTES. 
459 
Note 32, p. 126. 
Hair evidently from the musk-ox was found near Refuge Inlet. The last of 
these animals seen by the Esquimaux was in the late spring of 1850, near Capo 
George Russell. Here Metek saw a group of six. 
Note 33, p. 138. 
For an account of the destruction of provision-depots by bears, see the 
reports of the singularly efficient sledgc-opcrations of Commodoro Austin, 
(Parliamentary Blue-Book.) The wolverine, (Gulo luscns,) the most destruc¬ 
tive animal to Arctic caches, is not found north of Lancaster Sound. So 
destructive are the bears about Peabody Bay, that nothing but a metallic 
cylinder with conical terminations gave any protection against their assaults. 
Note 34, p. 155. 
The liquids subjected to these low temperatures were for the most part the 
ethers and volatile oils. The results wall be published elsewhere. 
Page 158. 
Hydrophobia. The caption at the head of the page is not intended to affirm 
the existence of this disease in this high North. Some of the tetanoid symp¬ 
toms attendant upon tonic spasm closely simulated it; but the disease, strictly 
speaking, is unknown there. 
Note 35, p. 220. 
There is a local reservoir of interior ice around Cape Alexander and toward 
Cape Saumaurez, which may be, however, a process from the great mer de glace 
of the interior. 
Notes 3G to 41 inclusive, pp. 221, 222. 
. I intended to refer by these numerals to a somewhat enlarged summary of 
the geognostic characters of this coast; but I find it impracticable to condense 
my observations into the narrow limits which have been reserved for these 
notes. Like many other topics of more scientific than popular interest, they 
may find a place in the Official Reports upon which I am now engaged under 
the orders of the Navy Department. 
Note 42, p. 222 
Where this face came in contact with opposing masses of rocks,—as at islands 
or at the sides of its issuing-trough,—abrupt fractures and excessive crevassing 
