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 . CASTLE Point of Bowdoin Bay. Bay, and had thought, at that time, what an idealsite for an arctic house, so accessible and shekered. 396 Northward over the Great Ice In this instance, distance did not lend enchantment
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 . CASTLE Point of Bowdoin Bay. Bay, and had thought, at that time, what an idealsite for an arctic house, so accessible and shekered. 396 Northward over the Great Ice In this instance, distance did not lend enchantmentto the view, and I found the place equally as attractiveclose to, as my fancy had pictured it. It seemed, inevery respect, an ideal site for an arctic house. Flow-ers and grass were in abundance, a stream close byoffered an ample supply of water, and the mountainsabout gave promise of complete protection from furi-ous winter winds. While here, Mrs. Peary was for-. FACE OF HUBBARD GLACIER. tunate in shooting two more deer, and then, afteranother rainy night, we pulled out along the easternshore of the bay, past the East Glacier, as I calledit, to the portal of the bay, a mass of warm, red-browncliffs, eroded by the arctic sculptors, in which bastions,towers, and ramparts were so strikingly like some medi-aeval strongholds that I called the rocks Castle these, we resumed our course eastward Boat Voyage into Inglefield Gulf 397 up the gulf. A few miles above the cliffs, we passed-along the face of the Hubbard Glacier, which reachesthe waters of the Sound in a line of crystalline blueice-cliffs, a mile or more in length, and from one hun-dred to one hundred and fifty feet in height. Beyondthe glacier gneissose precipices form the shore, and,rounding another bold point, we looked northwardinto an expansion of the gulf, rimmed by glisteningglaciers, separated by wild and towering mountains.
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