. 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. vc- ncs Lil's h I-k)at and Sledge Trips 143 We had four walrus hcatls in the hoats and at I'ast four more animals had been killed and sunk o:


. 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. vc- ncs Lil's h I-k)at and Sledge Trips 143 We had four walrus hcatls in the hoats and at I'ast four more animals had been killed and sunk o:;'. of si_n-ht. We were i^lad to land iind camp for the ni^ht. Next morning-, 1 )r. Cook and Matt st uled to walk east alon_!^ the short? to the house of a natixc who. Ikwa said, lived near Cape Ackland. Tile)- were oone twelve hours, aiul I put in the Unut takin:;' hearings and photoi^^raphic views around the Sound. The Doctor and Matt returned at ten i'. m., and. AMPHITHEATRE BERG. Young Ice just Fnrmiiig. thouo-ht they had walked nearly forty miles. They had seen no natives, hut had found four stone igloos, laro-cr than others we had seen, onl)- one of which seemed to ha\c; In' reciintly used. They f(nmd the youno- ice farther up th(,' Sound stronu; enough to walk ujjon. As the n(;w ice preV(Mited farther pro-ress. and we had found no tracc-s of th'cr aloUL-' the shon.', we re- 11'. 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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