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 . brought to camp nine fine deer. Re-turning with my load of venison and skins to RedCliff House, I heard the boys story of their experi-ence on the ice-cap, and then sent them to the headof the bay in the Faith to bring back their e
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 . brought to camp nine fine deer. Re-turning with my load of venison and skins to RedCliff House, I heard the boys story of their experi-ence on the ice-cap, and then sent them to the headof the bay in the Faith to bring back their equipment. The attempt to establish an advance supply depothad not been a success. The sledge party returned toRed Cliff on September 12th, reporting that soft snowmade sledge-hauling very arduous work. They coulddrag only one sledge at a time, and being compelledto double on their tracks, they made only one mile onSeptember 8th, reaching an altitude of 2300 feet. A Boat and Sledge Trips 139 snow-storm and high wind kept them in camp onSeptember 9th. The next morning, the hauhng wasworse than ever, and they made only a mile by reconnoitring three miles ahead and finding noprospect of better sledging, they deposited one of thesledge loads on a nunatak at an elevation of 2600feet above the sea, and returned home without theirsledges or W^ALRUS. On September 22d, I sent Astriip and Gibson tothe head of the bay again, to attain the Inland Ice, andstudy the condition of travel as far north-east as possi-ble. After dragging their sledges for five days andattaining an altitude of about 4600 feet, they decidedto return, owing to snow-squalls, high winds, and hardhauling. The thermometer was broken on the thirdday out, and the lowest temperature recorded up to I40 Northward over the Great Ice that time was 2° F. Astrup estimated they had madeabout thirty miles inland. They turned back the dayafter they lost sight of land. They were warm enoughwhen walking, and
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