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 . tever balance might be necessary to completethe full amount, and the Kite again went north in1895, with Mr. Emil Diebitsch—whose experience in1894 especially fitted him for the place, who had givenhis time and energy unreservedly t
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 . tever balance might be necessary to completethe full amount, and the Kite again went north in1895, with Mr. Emil Diebitsch—whose experience in1894 especially fitted him for the place, who had givenhis time and energy unreservedly to aid Mrs. Peary,and who now unselfishly set aside his own affairs en-tirely—in command of the Expedition. Returning from this Expedition exhausted by thestrain of my ice-cap journey, and, as I now appreciate,not myself physically or mentally, I felt as if myArctic efforts were ended, and the fact that therewere two well-equipped expeditions still in the field,with a good chance of accomplishing their objects,made me feel as if my life-work had been a failure. There were still some unfinished threads of mywork to be knotted, before I loosened my grasp uponit and turned my eyes away from my dream,—threadswhich my struggle for something more important hadleft me no time to attend to. The principal one ofthese items of unfinished business was the securing.
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