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 . 454 Northward over the Great Ice In early summer, after the meUing of the snow is wellunder way, the presence of considerable quantities ofthe so-called red snow gives an excuse perhaps for therather vivid name of Crimson Cliffs, a
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 . 454 Northward over the Great Ice In early summer, after the meUing of the snow is wellunder way, the presence of considerable quantities ofthe so-called red snow gives an excuse perhaps for therather vivid name of Crimson Cliffs, applied byCaptain Ross. Abreast of Conical Rock, the shorefor two or three miles is a vertical cliff swarming withlooms and kittiwake gulls, then it retreats, forming alittle bight two or three miles wide and four or fivedeep, which does not appear on the charts. A few. ROOKERY OF LITTLE AUKS. miles north of this bight, the crystal wall of the Peto-wik Glacier presents for six or seven miles a glisteningbarrier to the waves. North of this, a comparativelydirect line of cliffs extends to Cape Athol, fifty-sixmiles from Cape York. These cliffs lack a crowningice-cap ; the glaciers of the Cape York cliffs are re-placed by narrow grass-carpeted ravines leading up toa rolling interior plateau, favourite haunt of deer. Thecliffs themselves, composed of contorted gneiss, show Appendix 455 sharp, angular lines and faces and a comparativelysmall talus. A few little auks breed along- this sec-tion of coast, and numbers of small grass-covered plat-forms and terraces at the foot of the cliffs are favouritesummer camping-places of the natives. At Cape Athol the coast-line turns sharply to theeast-north-east, to form the southern shore of a largebifurcated inlet known as Wolstenholm Sound. Be-tween this shore line, the Petowik ice-stream, and theice-cap, is a larg
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