from the top of the cliff was beautiful [36] in the extreme - Disco Sound lay un- der a summer sky, with, the glassy, blue water sea dotted with scores or perhaps hun- dreds of icebergs of all sizes, and the surrounding mountains, green clad half-way up their abrupt southern slopes but bare red and brown above, with great patches of snow here and there and the vast permanent ice cap covering and crowning all. We were much interested in the kayaks or native boats of the Eski- mos who clustered about the "Cliff" offering models of boats and sledges and earings of walrus and narwhal horn for sale or barter. The kayak is a re- markable little boat about fourteen feet long and twenty to twenty-two inches wide at the waist, when