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[[pencil]] [[underlined]] 127 [[/pencil]] [[/underlined]] danish [[strikethrough]] Muscitos [[/strikethrough]] Musquitos are not following our Wake! In less than two minutes the whole army was again around us. If any one had told me such could have occurred, I could [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] not have believed it! After repeated trials of the ^ [[insertion]] brush off & [[/insertion]] run stratagem it was determined that the musquitos of Greenland are very smart in [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] prosecuting their warfare - quite equal to the French! We saw on the other side of the mountain [[strikethrough]] we had noticed [[/strikethrough]] a beautiful lakelet - hemmed in by several magnificent piles of mountains, Down we went, till at last we stood upon its margin. Its ^ [[insertion]] clean, deep [/insertion]] waters mirrored the peaks that were enthroned above us. The N.E. shore was a ^ [[insertion]] low [[/insertion]] shingly beach that [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] had been thrown up by the ^ [[insertion]] W. [[/insertion]] winds only from in no other direction could the winds [[strikethrough]] seep sweep [[/strikethrough]] approach the lake. It was fed by various small streams that were leaping down from the ^ [[insertion]] snowy [[/insertion]] mountains. Sterry stooped down & wrote his [[end page]] [[start page]] [[pencil]] 128 [[/pencil]] name in the smooth sand by the water's edge: Thence I named it: - [[triple underlined]] "William Sterry Lake" [[/triple underlined]] We walked along its northern side saw numerous Salmon - Trout - very small - Caught three in our hands & pock^[[insertion]] et [[/insertion]]ed them. Found on the level plain running along the N. Westerly side numerous deer-skulls & horns. Some distance in the water Sterry discovered an Egg. Obtained a stick, "fished" it out [[strikethrough]] of the water [[/strikethrough]]- It was a good one - Walked around the lake down to its outlet. Out-witted finally the musquitoes by [[strikethrough]] l [[/strikethrough]] divesting ourselves - then running ^ [[insertion]] opposite [[/insertion]] to the winward of them Another fact discovered - When ^ [[insertion]] there was [[/insertion]] a good breeze the musquitos would get down under the ^ [[insertion]] Lee [[strikethrough]] side [[/strikethrough]] [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] winward [[/strikethrough]] side of a rock & soon as breeze would slack up would fly out & follow speedily in our wake! It was now 12 o'clock - Our exercise