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 . PACKING. We had to get into harness ourselves and help thedogs haul almost invariably after a fresh fall of snow,and also during the climb up the slope of the ice-cap, both from McCormick Bay and IndependenceBay. At these times, a
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 . PACKING. We had to get into harness ourselves and help thedogs haul almost invariably after a fresh fall of snow,and also during the climb up the slope of the ice-cap, both from McCormick Bay and IndependenceBay. At these times, a long walrus-hide line was runout from the front of the sledge over the dogs, sothat I could attach It to my shoulders and pull whilestill keeping in advance of the team. Astriip, with ashort line attached to the side of the sledge, was able 282 Northward over the Great Ice to pull and at the same time attend to the came to the rescue in this way during about tendays of the entire trip. When camp was pitched, thesledge end of the traces was unfastened from thesledge and then tied to a steel-pointed alpenstock,driven deeply into the snow just beyond reach of thecamp and sledges. The care of the dogs—that is, detaching them fromthe sledges at night, making them fast to their stakes,. UP THE RAVINE. feeding them once a day at the conclusion of themarch, and attaching them to the sledges in themorning—was my personal charge. When the marchcommenced, the dogs were in Astriips charge asdriver until we camped at night, except on occasionswhen, to relieve the wearying monotony, we alter-nated during the march, first one and then the othersetting the course and driving the dogs. Astrup alwaysbuilt the snow shelter, or kitchen, as we called it. The The White March 283 duties of cook were taken by each of us on alternatedays, and these duties covered the entire time at acamp. The man on duty as cook slept in the kitchenand was always prepared to turn out at an instantsnotice to
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