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 . table and animal lifebeing in striking contrast to the icy wastes of MelvilleBay and Kane Basin north and south of it, and tothe desolate barren shores of Ellesmere Land west-ward across Smith Sound. It is also one of the earliestk
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 . table and animal lifebeing in striking contrast to the icy wastes of MelvilleBay and Kane Basin north and south of it, and tothe desolate barren shores of Ellesmere Land west-ward across Smith Sound. It is also one of the earliestknown of high Arctic regions, and for the past hundredyears has been the principal focus of Arctic effort, nofewer than six expeditions having wintered within itslimits. And finally it is the home of a little tribe ofArctic aborigines, at once the most northerly individu-als of the human race, one of the smallest in number, 443 444 Northward over the Great Ice and in many ways the most interesting, of aboriginalpeoples. Eight years ago I selected this region as the basisof my work of northern exploration, and since thattime I have spent three winters and portions of sixsummers in the midst of its savage, magnificent sur-roundings, and among its happy human children. This Arctic oasis is distant three thousand milesfrom New York City as a steamer would go, and. CAPE YORK. twenty-one hundred in an air-line almost due north,and is situated between the extreme meridians of NewYork City and Halifax. Lying as It does six hundredmiles within the Arctic Circle, half-way between theconfines and the heart of the great polar night, theArctic Circle and the Pole, its every feature and con-dition is so different from what we are accustomed to,that I have no doubt many an intelligent reader willhave difihculty in forming a correct conception of thecountry. Appendix 445 Though only two hundred and thirty-five miles inlength from north to south, and a little over one hun-
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