. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. Appendix II 481 something with which to clothe themsL-lves, and their sole occupation the striiL;L;l(; for these objects ; with habits and co
. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. Appendix II 481 something with which to clothe themsL-lves, and their sole occupation the striiL;L;l(; for these objects ; with habits and conditions of life hardly above the ani- mal, these people seem at first to be ver\- near the bottom of the scale of civilisation ; yet closer ac([Uaint-. AHSAYOO. Slunvini^ f-r>ii,U Hair of tlic Men. ance shows them to l)e quick, intellit^ent, inij^enious, and thorouj^dily human. With our surroundins^^s and brinjj^inL^ up, drawinjr as we do upon the entire; world for our daily wants, we can have no concej)tion of the earlier condition of this people and their almost inconceivable destitution VOL, I.—31. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Peary, Robert E. , 1856-1920. New York : F. A. Stokes
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