478 He did not go far enough to see any signs of leads or open water. The black fog over the open sea was many miles outside the bay. The bay ice rubbing against the ice foot of the great cliff under the influence of the swell due to the rising tide produced a really music- al tone rhythmic in its cadence. This was intensified by reflection from the vertical and almost vertical rock walls of the cliff, and therefore was louder here than elsewhere along the shore. A half-mile east of the val- ley, at the place where we have seen foxes so often, we heard sharp bark- ing from the cliff slope as if of some animal in pain. Some time after our return to the ship Predlack came on board saying that he had caught a fox in one of his traps. Perhaps it was the fox that Dr. Tangman and I heard.