. 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. le. Reconnaissance of Mel\ ille I)ay Next morninL;' \vas the 20t]i of April. A strnni^ wind was still blowing" from the south. All our (
. 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. le. Reconnaissance of Mel\ ille I)ay Next morninL;' \vas the 20t]i of April. A strnni^ wind was still blowing" from the south. All our (lojj^ food was <j;^onL', and of our provisions wc had but cnou*j^ii left to last us ten da)s. I therefore decided, instead of workiiiL; larther southwartl. it would be wiser to i^^'o up in th(; unknown iiorlh-cast corner of the bay and continue the observations there, touchini^ the shon; at different })lac(!S, and in this way at the same time work my way back to Cape \'ork. I there- fore set out at seven with the course directly for Cape Murdock, that is, th(^ distant bluffs which, ac- cordinLf' to the map, I considered to be this cap(^ As I 'ot near, howexer, I discovered that tlu;se steep cliffs were nothing;' but a lonely nuno , a little island which on the. inside almost t( u* ned the ui'lacier face. As the place commanded a ifood view of the surrountlin^" country, and as the foi; which we had encountered in the mornini;- had mostly cleared away, I told Koolootinj^wah to build our usual little snow house near the beach while I took t'ne instru- ment and ascended the tlu'ec?- to fourdumdred-feet- hitrh summit of the island to o^et a few compass bear- iuLTs. After a while I was visited In' KoolootinLTwah, who also wanted to <^ a L(ood view of this d(;solate corner of the oreat ice-fields of Melville l^ay. But even to the modest native this jjlace seemed to offer no attraction. The rocky around was (.'V(M-vwhere covered with larL^^e snow-drifts, swep
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