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 . ven reached and cutmy feet. It was even questionable whether I couldfix up my foot-gear to enable me to get back withoutmore or less serious injury to my feet. With the assistance of a pair of sealskin mittensand a knit skull-cap,
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 . ven reached and cutmy feet. It was even questionable whether I couldfix up my foot-gear to enable me to get back withoutmore or less serious injury to my feet. With the assistance of a pair of sealskin mittensand a knit skull-cap, I patched up my foot-gear, andafter an hours rest, started on my return to the campon the moraine. Long before I reached the edge of the ice, I wasobliged to add to the protection of my feet such por-tions of my garments as I could spare, and it was withthe feelings of one who is suddenly relieved from anexcruciating toothache, that I stepped from the raggedrocks upon the Inland Ice and strapped on my snow-shoes. 324 Northward over the Great Ice As I neared the moraine, I saw Astriip perched onits summit looking anxiously for me, for I had beengone fifteen hours instead of four or five, as intendedwhen I started. I found my dinner, lunch, breakfast, whatever itmight be called, of tea, pemmican, and biscuit, readyfor me, and when I had satisfied my hunger and. MY PADDED KAMIKS. stretched myself out on the rocks to sleep, it seemedas if never before had I been so sore and tired. Ihad been travelling and climbing for twenty-threehours, and I felt, to a marked degree, the change fromthe dry, cold atmosphere of the Inland Ice to themoister and almost torrid atmosphere of the than this, my reconnaissance had failed of itsobject, and it would now be necessary for Astriip and To the Northern End of Greenland 325 myself to take the dogs and three or four days sup-plies and march overland to whatever distance mightbe necessary to give me the unobstructed, definiteoutlook which
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