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 . o the ArcticOcean off the shores of north-east Greenland. Fordays we had kept constantly in view the mountainmasses forming the southern boundary of this channel,and through rifts in the mountains we had from time Northward over th
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 . o the ArcticOcean off the shores of north-east Greenland. Fordays we had kept constantly in view the mountainmasses forming the southern boundary of this channel,and through rifts in the mountains we had from time Northward over the Great Ice to time seen this depres-sion, and had now andthen caught ghmpses ofthe frozen channel oc-cupying it; and we hadseen beyond It mount-ains and fjords stretch-ing between them. Itwas evident that thischannel marked thenorthern boundary ofthe mainland of Green-land. To the north-west,north, and north-eaststretched steep red-brown bluffs on theother side of the bay,with a flat fore-shorereaching to the watersedge ; and we couldmake out to the north-ward the entrance of asecond fjord or channelextending apparently tothe resemblance ofthese bluffs to that shoreof McCormick Baywhich formed our head-quarters was very strik-ing. Close at hand asingle isolated ice-capcrested these bluffs, butdisappeared in the mid-dle distance ; and, be-. ACADEMY GLACIER AND INDE-PENDENCE BAY. Northernmost Greenland 347 yond that, the shores which stretched far away to thenorth-east were free of snow, and the summits free ofice-caps. On the west side of the fjord opening werenumerous httle islands. There is every reason tobelieve that to the north-west, north, and north-eastwe were gazing upon an archipelago whose westernlimits Lockwood had discovered in 1882. At our feet, beyond the great fan-shaped peripheryof our big glacier, were scattered many icebergsprisoned in the still unbroken surface of the bay this, the bay ice seemed perfectly smooth andunbroken, and
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