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 . into the distance,until they become simply waving lines, faint yet defi-nite as those from a gravers tool The orient cliffsof this island are a mass of rich warm colour. Scat-tered over its summit are numerous great erratics,brough
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 . into the distance,until they become simply waving lines, faint yet defi-nite as those from a gravers tool The orient cliffsof this island are a mass of rich warm colour. Scat-tered over its summit are numerous great erratics,brought here at a time when the elaciers which nowflowed hundreds of feet below me swept, perhaps,without a ripple over the highest peak. Descending to the camp, I found my Eskimos ina state of excitement, a school of kahlillowah, or nar- 402 Northward over the Great Ice whal, having- been sighted out in the bay. Immedi-ately the boat was launched, and everyone climbingin except Komonahpik, who got into his kayak, westarted out in pursuit. With a little coaching on thepart of my crew, we succeeded in getting near enoughfor Mrs. Peary to put a bullet into one of the animals,and then a dextrous launch of the harpoon by Ko-monahpik secured him from sinking, and we towedhim back to our camp and pulled him high up on therocks. Then for the first time we gazed upon the. TRACY GLACIER. Strange peculiarities of this original of the fabledunicorn. It took my deft natives but a few minutesto skin the big animal, then, piling the skin and somechoice cuts of meat into the bottom of the boat, weresumed our voyage, re-traversed the western coast ofthe island to its southern point, and then boresouthward directly across the gulf for the mouth ofAcademy Bay, which opened black and unpromisingbeneath a canopy of leaden-coloured clouds, across anapparently impenetrable mass of icebergs and our way through these, and having a bit of Boat Voyage into Inglefield Gulf 403 excitement during a
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