. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897 : with a description of the little tribe of Smith-Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the " Saviksue" or great Cape-York meteorites. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. Fall Ice-Cap Work 297 in every direction was only blank nothingness. We must make an effort to ij^et back to the lod^e. for we were on the la
. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897 : with a description of the little tribe of Smith-Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the " Saviksue" or great Cape-York meteorites. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. Fall Ice-Cap Work 297 in every direction was only blank nothingness. We must make an effort to ij^et back to the lod^e. for we were on the last round of our provisions. With com- pass in hand I started oft, and travelled as far as I could without losinj^ sii^ht of Matt and the team, whir'-" mioht be two himdred feet, then with th(? compass put myself on the course, then at the word Matt would drive the team up to me. The do<j;^s wallowed to their chins in the soft snow, and the sledi;'', thouj^di loaded with nothin*^ but the tent, oil-stove, and shovels, drai^i4ed like a VIEW FROM THE ICE-CAP. Tw^o days of this kind of work brought us twenty miles nearer the lodge, and on the third morning I was delighted to find that we were just beneath the cloud level, and could make out ahead of us, beyond the ghastly white stretch of the ice-cap, the sullen shapes of the snow-covered land, barely tliscernible in the dead light. From the landward crest of the ice-cap wliert; it begins to slope sharply down to the surrounding moraine, the bold capes and points of land jutting out into the gulf and Sound seemed, in the dim, grey r. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Peary, Robert E. , 1856-1920. New York : F. A. Stokes
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