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 . PRICELESS TREASURES FROM PHILADELPHIA FRIENDS. the glacier itself in every direction, to see if we couldfind any more tracks. Our utmost efforts were un-availing, although the tracks were distinct, passing upon to the glacier. At n
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 . PRICELESS TREASURES FROM PHILADELPHIA FRIENDS. the glacier itself in every direction, to see if we couldfind any more tracks. Our utmost efforts were un-availing, although the tracks were distinct, passing upon to the glacier. At no place in the entire peripheryof the great ice-stream was there any track or trace ofa man having left the glacier. The inference was un-avoidable : Verhoeff, crossin^r the elacier, in thickweather perhaps, had slipped and fallen into one ofinnumerable yawning crevasses. The accident wasthe same as those which occur almost annually in theglaciers of the Alps. The great ice-stream where he Search for Verhoeff—Homeward Voyage 415 met his untimely end bears now the name ofVerhoeff.^ It is needless to say that this accident cast the deep-. FAREWELL TO OUR GREENLAND HOME. est gloom upon every member of both parties ; it wasso sudden, so unexpected, like a flash of lightning This search for Verhoeff, prosecuted for six days and nights by all themembers of my party and Professor Heilprins, the Kites crew, and nineEskimos, the latter excited to the utmost by the promise of a rifle and a boxof ammunition to the first who saw Verhoeff, was discontinued only when itwas the conviction of everyone that there was no longer any ground for hope. 4i6 Northward over the Great Ice from a clear sky, occurring- as it did in the height ofthe summer, after all the possibilities of the winter andof the ice-cap work had been surmounted without theleast accident. I could think of nothing else as the THE GIANT OF ATANEKERDLUK. Weathered Pinnacle of a Trap Dyke. Kite, on the 24th, after six days of unr
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