. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. Il'/ vm h M t' r I. u 146 Northward over the "Great Ice" May 27, 1S94, the brown mass, rudely awakened from its winter's sleep, fou
. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. Il'/ vm h M t' r I. u 146 Northward over the "Great Ice" May 27, 1S94, the brown mass, rudely awakened from its winter's sleep, found for the first time in its cycles of existence the eyes of a white man sj^azinj; upon it. I kept Tallakoteah at work enlarninj^ the pit and excavatin*^ about the; meteorite,' until Lc:e and Kessuh arrived, when he was rt^lieved by the latter. In addi- tion to the thick blank(.'t of snow, the meteorite was comi)letely covered with a half-inch-thick coating; of ice. 'rhe work of excavation satisfactorily completed, I spent ihe remainder of the perfect, cloudless day of. LOOKING NORTH ACROSS PETOWIK GLACIER. Sunday, until four o'clock in the afternoon, in measur- uv^, sketchiuL:;^, and photooraphini^ the heavenly visitor and takinL( auL^les for a roui^h map of the vicinity, and then descended to the sledi^e for a little needed sleep. Tallakoteah tells me that the Innuits call the meteor- ite a woman in a sittin^^ position, and says it used to be much larj^er and higher than it is now, but that his people have jj^radually worn it down, and that years airo natives from Peterahwik broke off the head and carried it away. He also voluntarily told how the an- cient knives of his people used to be made, namely, by. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Peary, Robert E. , 1856-1920. New York : F. A. Stokes
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