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 . inhabitants andthe phases of life there, are really like. While I have endeavoured in these pages to care-fully sum up the general aspects and results of mywork, I desire it to be clearly understood that I havemade no attempt to ha
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 . inhabitants andthe phases of life there, are really like. While I have endeavoured in these pages to care-fully sum up the general aspects and results of mywork, I desire it to be clearly understood that I havemade no attempt to have the data I accumulated setforth with scientific fulness and detail. It has been my aim to make this book worthy ofand adapted for the most general reading, yet at thesame time to give it a character that may, I trust,secure for it the attention of Arctic students and scien-tific specialists. My Expeditions have gathered valuable scientificmaterial in ethnology, meteorology, geography, andnatural history. This material has not as yet beendigested and collated by experts. When it has it willbe presented in monograph form. Dependent upon the results of my coming Expe-dition, this book will clear the field for somethingfurther, or will form the complete record of my Arcticwork. R. E. PEARY,Civil Engineer, United States York, May, 1898. INTRODUCTION.
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