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 . S. PEARY DISTRIBUTING HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS. round into the head of Robertson Bay, where I wouldeffect a junction with Gibson. The Kite, later on,was to follow me into Robertson Bay. The mostcareful examination of the shore discovered
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 . S. PEARY DISTRIBUTING HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS. round into the head of Robertson Bay, where I wouldeffect a junction with Gibson. The Kite, later on,was to follow me into Robertson Bay. The mostcareful examination of the shore discovered not theslightest trace of Verhoeff. Reaching the head ofthe bay, and communicating with Gibson, who hadcome down the side of the glacier, I found that thenatives had discovered traces of the missing man,— 414 Northward over the Great Ice footprints along the side of the glacier. Picking theseup, we immediately followed them up on to the glacieritself, and for a little distance on its surface, whenthey disappeared upon the unyielding surface of theice. I then divided my Eskimos into three of these were to start at the waters edge andfollow each side of the g-lacier with the utmost care, tofind where Verhoeff had left the glacier. ProfessorHeilprin, with his party, and I, with two of the besttrailers in the entire tribe, quartered the surface of. PRICELESS TREASURES FROM PHILADELPHIA FRIENDS. the glacier itself in every direction, to see if we couldfind any more tracks. Our utmost efforts were un-availing, although the tracks were distinct, passing upon to the glacier. At no place in the entire peripheryof the great ice-stream was there any track or trace ofa man having left the glacier. The inference was un-avoidable : Verhoeff, crossin^r the elacier, in thickweather perhaps, had slipped and fallen into one ofinnumerable yawning crevasses. The accident wasthe same as those which occur almost annually in theglaciers of the Alps. The great ice-stream where he Search
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