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 . all thetime he was hunting. He said the temperature intheir snow igloo was from +40° F. to +45° F, Saturday, March 19th,my Eskimo bitch gavebirth to a litter of ninepups, only one of whichwas a male. Later I ob-served, frequently,
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 . all thetime he was hunting. He said the temperature intheir snow igloo was from +40° F. to +45° F, Saturday, March 19th,my Eskimo bitch gavebirth to a litter of ninepups, only one of whichwas a male. Later I ob-served, frequently, thisdisproportion of thesexes among the dogs,and noted the same pe-culiarity in the propor-tion of the sexes among^the natives. The femalechildren are considerablyin excess of the seems a wise pro-vision of nature to con-tinue the species. I com-pleted my sledge thesame day, and was much pleased with it. It weighedtwenty pounds, was twelve feet five inches long, thir-teen feet one inch long from tip to tip of runners, andsixteen inches wide. Monday, March 21st, I started early for the ice-capeast of Four-Mile Valley, to observe the conditions onthe Inland Ice, which was soon to be my route to thefar North. The morning was clear and calm. I tookwith me my lunch, a riBe, an aneroid, thermometer,and snow-shoes. My costume consisted of a very light. KOKO. -J- Northward over the Great Ice woollen undershirt, a pair of light woollen socks, apair of blanket foot-wraps, a light woollen skull-cap, areindeer-skin kooletah, a pair of dogskin trousers,a pair of kamiks, and a pair of deerskin and blanketmittens—a total weight of about twelve pounds—lessthan that of a winter costume at home. On leaving the bay, I put on my snow-shoes andkept them on until I reached the ice-cap. In the nar-row part of the valley,most of the surface wascovered with ice, formedafter the February rain-storm, and in places thebed of the valley torrentshowed that there hadbeen a considerablestream
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