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cesses of Melville Bay. On the slope of a mountain near the head
of this bight, according to my guide were to be found the wonderful
iron stones, but it was with serious misgivings on my part that
after fastening our dogs to the ice foot, we began the search.
For several days past it had been showing and my guide had
repeatedly assured me that the objects of our journey would be so
deeply covered that we could not find them. There certainly were
grounds for this fear for all the minor topographical features of
the narrow belt of land which here separates the great interior
snow cap from the frozen chaos of Melville Bay, , were hidden under
the excessive precipitation of the past few months, and the extra-
ordinary amount of snow swept in from the Bay by furious south-
easters, and piled in gigantic drifts upon the land.
After passing some five hundred yards up a narrow valley,
Telikoteenah stopped and began probing in the snow with his whip
handle. Then a bit of blue trap rock projecting above the snow,
caught his eye. Kicking aside the snow he exposed more pieceses
and told me this was the top of the pile of stones used by his an-
cestors in pounding fragments from the aerolites. He then indicat-
of the larger
ed a spot four or five feet distant as the location of the long-
sought aerolites. Returning to the sledge for the saw knife, he
began excavating the snow and at last, after digging a pit some
three feet deep and five feet in diameter, at 5:30 A. M. , Sunday,
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