. 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. The Land beyond the Ice-Cap 463 vivc to throw ourselves forwar^i, the motiient we feh the snow ''ivitiLT wav l)eneath us. AhhouL^li the hind
. 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. The Land beyond the Ice-Cap 463 vivc to throw ourselves forwar^i, the motiient we feh the snow ''ivitiLT wav l)eneath us. AhhouL^li the hind here was very simihir in ai)|)ear- ance to that below the Independencediay moraine (as seen in 1X92), the junction of the ice-cap and the land was very dissimilar. In the former it afforded free and easy access to the rocks, in the latter it was marked hy a nearly continuous, vertical wall of Mue ice, utterly impracticable of ascent or descent. I'^inally. ICE-CAP CREVASSE. we were able to scramble down over an incipient j^la- cier, pickini^ our way across crevasses, and windinjT amono-turcpioise seracs, till at last W(; found ourselves at the bottom of a lari^e pit, walled partly by the ice- cliffs and partly by the rocks, and its lloor intersected by embankments and mounds of moraine detritus. As we stepped from the ice upon this, Matt, who had wearied of the friij^htful monotony of the ice-cap, ex- claimed," Rocks once more, thank Ciod ! " Later, with foot-gear cut to pieces and feet bruised to agony, we \ â \ s\ w. 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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