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 . they expected to be five or sixdays on the way. Keeping eastward close by the shore for severalmiles from the snow igloo, we then left the nowsoutherly trending shore and struck out as the crowflies down the centre of the Gulf for
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 . they expected to be five or sixdays on the way. Keeping eastward close by the shore for severalmiles from the snow igloo, we then left the nowsoutherly trending shore and struck out as the crowflies down the centre of the Gulf for the eastern endof Herbert Island, rising far westward above thewhite expanse, like the bastion of some great redfortress. It was a long and tedious pull for my dogs,as the snow in many places was quite deep and hadnot been suf^ciently wind-beaten to support they kept bravely to their work, though nothingis more disagreeable to the Eskimo dog than a slow, 2 72 Northward over the Great Ice steady drag. In the forenoon of the next day, wereached the ice-foot, in front of the deserted igloos,on the easternmost point of Herbert Island. Un-fastening the doers and orivinor them their dinner, O O 1 1 XT we then prepared and ate our own ; and then Kyocrept into one of the igloos and curled himself up forsleep, while Mrs, Peary and myself spread a few seal-. BACK TO RED CLIFF. skins Upon the snow, crept into our sleeping-bags, andwent to sleep in the sun. Here, after some four hourssleep, we were joined by Tahtahrah and Koolooting-wah, two young Eskimos, who had come out from RedCliff on one of my sledges, with one of my Winches-ters and their own dogs, after seals. They had alreadyobtained two, and loading these upon their sledgethey started off over the now well-travelled road Around Inglefield Gulf by Sledge 273 to Cape Cleveland, We soon followed them, and alittle before midnight on Sunday, April 24th, we camedashing over the ice-foot in front of Red Cliff, after asledge j
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