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lashed down, a rough plank tramway laid along a rude roadbed which
the Eskimos had been constructing by removing some stones and fill-
ing in holes with others, and over this tramway the big mass was
gradually transported on iron runners to the snow bank.
Early the next morning before the sun had begun to thaw
the surface of the snow it was moved down to the head of the bay,
and in the afternoon ferried across the lead on a huge cake of ice
40' long 20' wide and 7' thick. A partial dock had to be cut in
the thin edge of the harbor floe to receive this novel ferry boat.
The following day the big brown prize was brought alongside and
after a narrow escape from loss by the breaking of the ice along-
side was hoisted safely on board and stowed in the hold. Up to
this last day the weather had been everything that could be desired
clear, calm and war m though new ice formed every night. Now it
came in foggy again and the next morning as we steamed over to
the island to see what could be done with the third specimen it
was still undecided what to do. The Kite was brought close along
shore under the site of the stone and everyone landed to have
another view of the stranger. It seemed as if it had actually
last saw
grown since we had seen it, and it was very evident that with
our appliances we could "do nothing with it as a whole. The other
alternative was to drill and attempt to blast a piece off and this
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