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 . the extraordinary storm of the pre-vious week. Mrs. Peary, Gibson, and both of myEskimo women, with their babies, were the first vic-tims, and none of us entirely escaped, though myshare of the infliction did not come until March 2
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 . the extraordinary storm of the pre-vious week. Mrs. Peary, Gibson, and both of myEskimo women, with their babies, were the first vic-tims, and none of us entirely escaped, though myshare of the infliction did not come until March 28th,when I was confined to the house for several days. Of course the Red-Cliff colony celebrated Wash-ingtons birthday. We spread an appetising banquet,and our usually simple fare gave way to a bounteous Preparing for the Ice-Cap Campaign 227 supply of broiled, guillemot breasts, venison pasty,pandowdy, green peas, corn, liebfraumilch, and choc-olate. Gibson set out with his rifle to look for theseals I had seen off Cape Cleveland, and Annowkahwent up the bay to hunt for seal holes. Gibsonreturned without seeing any seals, but Annowkah re-ported a seal hole and saw a deer in the neighbour-hood of Mile Valley. Ravens were flying over thehouse, and other signs of returning animal life wereincreasing. At noon on March 2d, the thermome-ter registered —43° MATT AND ANNOWKAH RETURNING FROM THE DEER HUNT. I drilled through the bay ice east of the tide gaugeand found its thickness to be three feet eight February thaw, together with a blanket of snow,had stopped all increase in the thickness of the ice for 228 Northward over the Great Ice several weeks. The snow on the ice weighed it downtin the water rose nearly to its surface. The lowtemperatures resulted in numerous mist-wreathsalong the shore of the bay and the icebergs, and our icefor melting purposes, when brought into the houseand dropped into the pails of water, snapped, crackled,and fell to pieces. The sound r
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