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 . Boat Voyage into Inglefield Gulf 2>^7 It was now early in the season, there was no specialhaste for the Kile to turn her bow southward, and theopportunity to examine the unknown and attractiveshores seemed a favourable one. Then
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 . Boat Voyage into Inglefield Gulf 2>^7 It was now early in the season, there was no specialhaste for the Kile to turn her bow southward, and theopportunity to examine the unknown and attractiveshores seemed a favourable one. Then, too, a summerboat voyage offered something in the nature of a picnicfor Mrs. Peary and myself after our long separation,an outing which should be free of the rush and hurryof preparation, as of responsibility or anxiety in regard Verhoeff. Dr. Cook. WE MET MY BOYS. to the future. It was therefore with much of thefeeling of a school-boy starting for a weeks picnicin the woods, that I started from Red Cliff at noonon August 9th in my lightest whale-boat, the MaryPeaiy, manned by five of my faithful Eskimos, Ko-monahpik, Merktoshar, Ingeropahdu or Freckles,his son Pooadloonah, and Koolootino^wah, with Mattas coxswain, and Mrs. Peary beside me in the stern-sheets. 588 Northward over the Great Ice The weather was not particularly auspicious ; it hadbeen blowing with a great deal of freshness ever sincemy return from the ice-cap the night of the 6th, andnow ominously heavy storm clouds hung over theentire region ; yet this was too slight a thing to in-terfere with our proposed journey. Rounding themassive reddish-grey bastion of Cape Cleveland, thebow of the Maiy Peary was headed eastward up
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