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 . DAWN OVER THE ROCKS. The sun was shining brilliantly upon the dazzlingwhite of the ice-cap behind us. Its genial rays weresearching out and lighting up the hilltops and thedeepest valleys of the land towards which our faceswere tur
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 . DAWN OVER THE ROCKS. The sun was shining brilliantly upon the dazzlingwhite of the ice-cap behind us. Its genial rays weresearching out and lighting up the hilltops and thedeepest valleys of the land towards which our faceswere turned, and which we were about to temperature was that of a balmy day in earlyApril in lands far south of the Arctic circle. I knewit would be very warm below. Innumerable patchesof snow dotted the landscape north of us, but they did Northernmost Greenland 331 not cover a hundredth part of the great area we sawstretching away before us. Our dogs were wild with dehght and expressed theiremotions most vociferously. They saw the landbefore them and were eager to reach it. They wereto accompany us in our tramp, for of course we couldnot leave them behind. So we gave them a rathermeagre breakfast and at seven oclock in the morningwe started. If the dogs had been gifted with sufficientsense I think they would keenly have appreciated the. EXHAUSTED WITH THE HEAT. changed conditions that had suddenly occurred. Wewere now the beasts of burden and they were com-paratively free. Our equipment and supplies for fourdays, with instruments, rifle, camera, and a very fewextras intended to give special distinction to ourFourth-of-July dinner, made a load of about fortypounds each for Astrup and myself. Starting out from Moraine Camp, we had to walkand slip about four hundred feet down the landwardslope of the ice, which stretched away for upward ofa mile before its foot rested on terra firma. We 2)2)2 Northward over the Great Ice found the travelling even more difficult than it hadbe
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