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but happily the tent which I was carrying saved me from injury. The 
stock of my gun and my pocket-thermometer were broken. Hans 
expressed a determination to proceed no farther in our present course. 
He pointed east, exclaiming, “No good;” “Esquimaux none;” and, 
looking west, he said “Sloopkie,” and started in the latter direction. 
On ascending the highest point in our vicinity, we discovered a river 
about three miles distant, running nearly northwest. This we showed 
our Esquimaux friend, whereupon he set off immediately and reached 
its banks at 8 p.m.— half au hour before we arrived. We travelled 
about ten miles to-day, and during our journey found the most luxu¬ 
riant growth of andromeda which we have met with in North Greenland. 
Besides serving for fuel, a quantity of it spread under our tent made a 
much softer bed than the stones. 
September 13, Tuesday.—Hans having expressed his unwillingness 
to go any farther, we thought it best to leave him in charge of the 
tent, &c., and, without the encumbrance of baggage, to proceed up the 
river, in order to find its source, which I hoped to do in one day’s 
travel. I felt certain that the glacier we had sighted on the 10th could 
not be very distant. I supposed the river to bo a continuation of that 
crossed by Dr. Kane with his first full party. About a mile from the 
tent we came to a fork in the river, one branch of which ran northwest, 
the other west. We followed the latter, aud after ten miles’ travel we 
came to a succession of terraced plains, occasionally appearing on either 
side of the stream, generally covered with rich grass, and marked in 
every direction by reindeer-tracks. We saw five of these animals feed¬ 
ing along the borders of the stream. These meadow-lands (for such 
they really seemed) indicated by their vegetable life a temperature 
much warmer than that along the coast, aud in their apparent rich¬ 
ness contrasted strangely with the desolate scenery around. This plain 
was at least two miles in diameter and about five in length. From this 
point we obtained the first sight of the glacier, which is about fifteen 
miles distant. We could see its upper surface in one continuous and 
unbroken line, through an arc of more than 90°. When within about 
half a mile of the glacier, a beautiful meteor fell directly before us, 
revealing in the dim twilight the real character of the huge mirror 
beneath us. From the glacier rose loud reports like distant thunder. 
It was nearly midnight when we reached its base, and we immediately 
undertook its ascent. Along the base, to the height of fifty or sixty 
feet, was a bank of snow continuous with the face of the glacier, and 
rising at an angle of 30°. This we ascefided without difficulty; but 
the smooth surface of the ice baffled us in our attempts to scale it. I 
