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Gould kindly presented me with an elaborate medal of canvas and tin
at breakfast the following morning, much, I think, to the annoyance
of the director.
At Cape Dorset we left Don and Doc and Freddie to do
their work among the huskies and col lecting animals for two months.
We hated to part with them, and they looked so comfortable in their
big tent. After two days of more interesting experiences with the
natives, we moved on.
We have two eskimos aboard as guides and to do the dirty
work. Avalisha and Kavaou--good men. Next stop, Mill Island, so
named by Baffin because of the milling and grinding of the ice about
its shores, Here we found a splendid harbor and put in for some days.
We made a whaleboat trip to the foot of the island to do
some surveying and take pictures. The tide phenomenon of this
island is probably the only one of its kind, most spectacular at the
point of the island where the tide, flowing west about five or six
miles an hour, meets the tide flowing south at a somewhat lesser rate.
Both of these currents, heavily laden with great ice pans and growl-
ers, come crashing together with a terrific noise and a great turmoil
of piling up and upending, splitting, roaring chaos. This hardly
describes it because it is almost beyond the imagination to conceive
its greatness without seeing it. In the tide rips in open water, the
ice rushes in opposite directions looking like nothing so much as the
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