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 . boration of tJie opinion advanced that the Inland Iceoffered an imperial highway. Original project presented to Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciencesand American Geographical Society in 1890.^ Bull. Am. Geog. Soc, No. 4, 1892. P
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 . boration of tJie opinion advanced that the Inland Iceoffered an imperial highway. Original project presented to Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciencesand American Geographical Society in 1890.^ Bull. Am. Geog. Soc, No. 4, 1892. PUBLISHERS NOTE. The following appendices embody in outlinesketches in popular form the results of the study,observation, and experience of Pearys entire Arcticlife, and not solely of the expeditions covered by thepreceding pages of this volume. As a break between two expeditions occurs here,and as, notwithstanding condensation, Parts the work necessarily fill many more pages thanthose devoted to Parts I. and II., the publishers have,for reasons based on good book-making, prevailedupon the author to allow these valuable appendicesto appear in this part of the work rather than at theend of the second volume. 439 APPENDIX 1. AN ARCTIC OASIS, Geographical and Geological Description—Striking Features—Bays—Islands—Glaciers—Mountains— APPENDIX I. AN ARCTIC OASIS HOME OF THE MOST NORTHERLY KNOWN PEOPLE ON THE GLOBE.
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