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 . Street, Brooklyn, andswung out into the EastRiver. Genial sunlightillumined the faces of acrowd o f friends andsightseers, waving adieus from the end of the were fairly off for North Greenland, and everyferryboat and steame
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 . Street, Brooklyn, andswung out into the EastRiver. Genial sunlightillumined the faces of acrowd o f friends andsightseers, waving adieus from the end of the were fairly off for North Greenland, and everyferryboat and steamer in the crowded East River knewit. Scores of whistles bade us good-bye and bonvoyage. All the way up the East River dipping flagsgave us hail and farewell. The fleet of big Soundsteamers passed us one by one, whistles saluting anddecks crowded with passengers waving Flushing, and other points, many yachts salutedwith their guns ; and it was not until night hid usthat the inspiring God-speeds of our friends and well-wishers were heard no more. Our little world, verymuch cramped for elbow-room, for every inch of space 43 44 Northward over the Great Ice below deck was filled, and the deck itself hiddenunder my equipment, was left to itself at last. Sixteen persons comprised the passenger list of thelittle Kite. Seven of them were members of my. CAPTAIN RICHARD PIKE OF THE KITE. North Greenland Expedition, while nine formed thescientific party sent out by the Academy of NaturalSciences, Philadelphia, to accompany me to my desti-nation, and then make such investigations in theirscientific specialties as time permitted before the Kite Brooklyn to McCormick Bay 45 returned home. This party was known as the WestGreenland Expedition. I had limited my own party to the number of menabsolutely required for the work I proposed to day of large expeditions in successful arctic ex-ploration I believed had gone by. The great workof the future, like much of that of the p
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