Greenland Journal IV 1916-1917
Page 90
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and spent about seven hours (76 there in lovely warm sunshine looking for walrus and waiting for tide to open ice up again. Wilder- ess of densely packed ice outside Cape Ethol, Wostenholme Island and Daleymple Rock as far as we can see, 60ft up on Saunders Is. and top of Eider Duck Is., wh. is about 60 ft above the sea. Lots of duck nests. Many females and young flying and swimming about. Agako and Bore- man started out about 4 p. m. after a walrus and an hour later K.R. christened our cori "Dr. Horay's Harbor"; we started after them. Could not find them and finally, after two hours search, tied up behind Daleym- crowding ple Rock. Driven out by the ice about 10:15. Succeeded in working way be- tween cases, going toward Eider Duck,