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 . German song, Auf den Hohenist Freiheit. Once more we could set our course and To the Northern End of Greenland 311 keep it. In this climb, Nalegaksoah, my best dog,and king of the team, received a sprain which resultedin my losing
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 . German song, Auf den Hohenist Freiheit. Once more we could set our course and To the Northern End of Greenland 311 keep it. In this climb, Nalegaksoah, my best dog,and king of the team, received a sprain which resultedin my losing him four days later. Nalegaksoah wasa long-limbed brute, quick as a flash of light, withjaws like the grip of fate. A born fighter, he hadsunk his Meamins: white teeth into the flanks andthroat of more than one polar bear, and in the first struggle for su- premacy, whenthe dogs which Ihad purchasedcame together,had unaided near-ly killed both ofthe one-eyed hun-ters fierce beardogs. Yet he wasone of the mostaffectionate dogsin the team, anda n encouragingword or touch ofmy hand was suf-ficient to bringhis great pawsthrusting againstmy chest and hisfierce yet intelli-gent face on alevel with myown. Poor fel-low, I mournedthe loss of a friendwhen, after limp-ing along behind the sledges for two or three dayswith his sprained leg, he lagged behind and was lost. NALEGAKSOAH. 312 Northward over the Great Ice in one of the ice-cap storms. Here too I lost my spy-glass in a crevasse, and narrowly escaped the loss ofLion and Pau, two of my best dogs, also in a feh till their traces stopped them, and then hungsuspended until hoisted out. Once back on the upperlevel of the Inland Ice, and with clear weather to helpme, I could make out the orography of the surface,and could see the depression of the glacier basin stillsweeping away to the eastward. Bearing away to the eastward until I could roundthis depression, we once more started north-east. Wewere soon brought up, however
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