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 . o which I applied the names of MountsAdams, Daly, and Putnam. Still eastward of us wasa striking precipitous island, and I headed the boatfor it. Arriving at its southern point, I scaled thenearly vertical cliffs to an elevation of
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 . o which I applied the names of MountsAdams, Daly, and Putnam. Still eastward of us wasa striking precipitous island, and I headed the boatfor it. Arriving at its southern point, I scaled thenearly vertical cliffs to an elevation of some fifteenhundred feet, from which point of vantage I couldsweep the entire circuit of Inglefield Gulf. The out-look was a striking one ; from north-west (true), clear 39^ Northward over the Great Ice around to south-east (true), the circuit of the gulf isan almost continuous glistening glacier face. Just atthe waters edge, this glacier face is interrupted byseveral precipitous-walled, flat-topped, isolated mount-ains, or nunataks, as the natives call them, but be-hind and climbing far above them can be seen themighty slope of the Great Ice, rising to the infinitesteel blue of the horizon which separates sky fromsnow throughout more than i8o°. North and westof me lay the indentation which I afterwards calledNavy Bay ; its head surrounded by several small. MOUNT PUTNAM. though Striking glaciers. North-east, east, and south-east, the giants of the North-Greenland ice-streams,the Tracy, Melville, and Heilprin Glaciers, sweptdown in frozen rapids and cataracts from the heart ofthe Great Ice to the sea. The three Arctic giants,Daly, Adams, and Putnam, with the astonishing glacierpanorama extending from them entirely round the headof the gulf, and the great saucer-shaped depression inthe ice-cap, distinctly perceptible above glaciers andnunataks, till it reaches the steely line of the distantice-cap horizon, present a scene which in grandeurand peculiarity of detail can be duplic
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