Northward over the great ice : 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 . w sunfloated along, above the steel-blue line of the frozenhorizon, through a sea of liquid fire. Reaching theedge of the ice-tongue, we anchored the sledges, andwith my instruments slung on my back, descendedthe glacier face. All
Northward over the great ice : 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 . w sunfloated along, above the steel-blue line of the frozenhorizon, through a sea of liquid fire. Reaching theedge of the ice-tongue, we anchored the sledges, andwith my instruments slung on my back, descendedthe glacier face. All the more salient features here were the sameas when we made the ascent three weeks before, butthose three weeks of arctic summer had transformedevery inch of surface into solid, glistening, unctuousblue ice, and every detail was sharper, deeper, moreangular, more heavily accented, like an etching longerexposed to the acid. Ridges which then were broadenough to permit a sledge to pass with a man on eachside, were now mere knife edges ; crevasses that couldbe jumped then, were impassable gulfs now. Aswe went down the valley we found a new tribe offlowers had made their appearance during our Reconnaissance of 1886 21 absence. In some places the sod was covered withlarge purple blossoms, and delicate bluebells wereabundant everywhere. The heat in the valley even. LARGE PURPLE BLOSSOMS. at this early hour was oppressive to us, accustomedto the cold atmosphere of the ice-blink, and whenwe reached the tent, I was carrying nearly all mywearing apparel except foot-gear slung at my back. Two days later my burning eyes and cracked andblistered face had regained something like their nor-mal condition, and we packed the sledges over themountains and dowa to the tent on our backs, andreturned to Ritenbenk. Here much to my regret Iwas obliged to part with my tawny-bearded, blue-eyed friend Maigaard, and go on alone to the Tossu-katek Glacier and the base of Noursoak Peninsula. The voyage in a
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