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 . TIC GLACIER SNOUT. East Glacier. formed of alternating cliffs and broad glacier faces, toCape Chalon, the favourite walrus hunting-ground ofthe natives; thence it trends more to the northward,and, in a great concave curve, broken b
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 . TIC GLACIER SNOUT. East Glacier. formed of alternating cliffs and broad glacier faces, toCape Chalon, the favourite walrus hunting-ground ofthe natives; thence it trends more to the northward,and, in a great concave curve, broken by two or threeglaciers, sweeps away to the couchant mass of wildUglooksoah (Cape Alexander), the western sentinel ofthe country, which, from its position just midway be-tween the confines and the heart of the Arctic Night,^frowns or smiles, as its mood may be, upon the perennialwaves of the North Water. Cape Alexander is just-half way between the Arctic Circle and the Pole. Appendix 471 North of Cape Alexander is a coast, the features ofwhich have been made famiHar to all by the pensof Kane and Hayes, trending nearly north to CapeOhlsen. Here the coast swings abruptly eastward,and, in a succession of brown cliffs, finally disappearsunder the omnipresent ice-cap at the southern angleof the Humboldt Glacier. In this stretch of coast are the well known Crystal-. CLIFFS OF KANGERDLOOKSOAH. Palace Cliffs and Glacier, Port Foulke, Foulke Fjord,Sunrise Point, Littleton Island, Cape Ohlsen, Life-Boat Cove, and Cairn Point; and in this short reach,three expeditions—Kanes, Halls, Hayess,—havewintered. The islands of this coast, from Cape York northward,present two striking peculiarities. They are almostinvariably in groups of three, consisting of two large 472 Northward over the * Great Ice ones of entirely dissimilar characteristics, and a thirdmuch smaller. For example, Bushnan, Meteorite, andRound Islands—Saunders, Wolstenholm, and Dal-rymple—Herbert, Northumberland, and Haklu
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