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 . WIFE OF SOKER. 484 Northward over the Great Ice Denizens of a little Arctic oasis, prisoned on theeast by the towering wall and superstitious terrors ofthe Sermiksoah, or Great Ice ; on the west by thewaves of Smith Sound ; on the
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 . WIFE OF SOKER. 484 Northward over the Great Ice Denizens of a little Arctic oasis, prisoned on theeast by the towering wall and superstitious terrors ofthe Sermiksoah, or Great Ice ; on the west by thewaves of Smith Sound ; on the north by the crystalramparts of the Humboldt Glacier; and on the southby the stretching miles of the unknown glaciers ofMelville Bay, they are at once the smallest, the mostnortherly, and most unique tribe upon the earth, and. EATING RAW WALRUS MEAT. perhaps the oldest upon the Western of them are of strikingly Mongolian type ofcountenance ; all of them possess the Oriental char-acteristics of mimicry, ingenuity, and patience inmechanical duplication ; and their appearance indi-cates the strong probability of the correctness of thetheory advanced by Sir Clements Markham, the dis-tinguished President of the Royal Geographical So- Appendix II 485 ciety of London. This theory is, in brief, that thesepeople are the remnants of an ancient Siberian tribe,the Onkilon, the last remains of which, driven fromtheir homes and out on to the Arctic Ocean by thefierce waves of Tartar invasion in the Middle Ages,passed to the New Siberian Islands, and thence grad-ually over or along lands as yet undiscovered, per-haps even across the Pole itself, to the Northern
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