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 . yus back. Ikwa, for such is the mans name, seems tounderstand, but we do not quite make out his an-swer. Mr. Verhoeff and I take the night watch. Ithas stopped raining, and looks as though it weregoing to clear, August i6t/i.—This
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 . yus back. Ikwa, for such is the mans name, seems tounderstand, but we do not quite make out his an-swer. Mr. Verhoeff and I take the night watch. Ithas stopped raining, and looks as though it weregoing to clear, August i6t/i.—This morning, after breakfast, itbeing Sunday, we had a vote as to whether weshould travel or rest, and as all the boys seemed anx-ious to return to Red Cliff House to enjoy the lux-uries of home life, I decided to move along. Afterthe boat had been reloaded and ready, we made onemore attempt to induce Ikwa and Mane, his wife, tocome with us, which they decided quite suddenly to no Northward over the Great Ice do, and with apparently no preparations brought his dog, a female, also his kayak, whichwe towed behind us. Shortly after leaving, we cameinto sight of a discharging glacier, whose surface wasdiscoloured a deep brick-red. The colouring matterwas only superficial, however, for icebergs only re-cently detached seemed to contain nothing but clear. ESKIMOS ON NORTHUMBERLAND ISLAND. Photo, by Dr. Cook. ice. A little farther on, we found floating a sealspear, which we picked up, and soon after this wecame around a point and found ourselves quite nearan Eskimo settlement. We could see natives run-ning from one tent to another, and one took a kayakand came to meet us. There was considerable heavyice at this point, and happening to strike the rightlane of water, we were soon landed, and the boat was Boat Voyage to the Islands in surrounded by natives, who would have got in it hadw^e allowed them to. Here we decided to spend theremainder of the day. Dr. Cook started in, an
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