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 . r brush, nor music could ever hope to waters of the gulf were everywhere dotted withthe countless output from these enormousface s, an innumerable fleet of iceberg-s. glacier Descendingto the boat,we pulled upalongthewe
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 . r brush, nor music could ever hope to waters of the gulf were everywhere dotted withthe countless output from these enormousface s, an innumerable fleet of iceberg-s. glacier Descendingto the boat,we pulled upalongthewest-ern shore ofthis island,and as weadvanced Iwas startled tosee the perfectprofile of agiant stoneface carved onthe westernbluff of theisland. Tothis strikingprofile, thoughbearded, I gave the name of the Bronze Sphinx, feelingthat perhaps in the arctic regions it would be permis-sible for even a sphinx to indulge in a beard. Directlyin front of this profile, carved in the everlasting arcticrock, is one of the most picturesque of the glaciers of thisregion, a glacier whose picturesqueness was doubled bythe peculiar conditions of absolutely mirror-like waterwhich obtained at the time of our visit. A photographshows this glacier with every feature duplicated in thewater, with such fidelity and symmetry that it hasbrought out a perfect dorsal view of a THE BRONZE SPHINX. 400 Northward over the Great Ice Pulling along the shore of the island, into an angleformed by the cliffs of the island on one side, and thecliffs of a glacier on the other, I landed, though in op-position to the judgment of my natives, who had theirfears in regard to the place, on account of the waveswhich might be caused by the birth of an iceberg fromthe glacier close by, and encamped for our next nightsoutingo I did pay sufficient attention to the fears ofmy natives to have them haul the boat well up abovethe highest high-water mark. While we were sleep-ing here, one of my own hunters, Koolootingwah,
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