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 . ASTRUP AND MY DOGS. mishap or hitch throughout the march. We werenow evidently at the top of the grade, and could soonexpect a slight descent on the northern side of thedivide toward the basin of the Petermann next day pr
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 . ASTRUP AND MY DOGS. mishap or hitch throughout the march. We werenow evidently at the top of the grade, and could soonexpect a slight descent on the northern side of thedivide toward the basin of the Petermann next day proved the truth of these snow surface became harder and harder, theaneroid and the sledges both indicated a gradualdescent, and after six hours marching we came upon To the Northern End of Greenland 305 a firm, marble-like surface, showing evidence of mostviolent wind forces, and scored and carved until itlooked like a great bed of white lava. Two hourslater, land was sighted to the north-west, and yet twohours later I called a halt, with a record of twentymiles for the day. On the last day of May, we had advanced butfive miles, when, as we rose on to the crest of a long. LIKE A GREAT BED OF WHITE of the Great Ice. hummock, the head of Petermann Fjord, with itsguarding mountains, and the great basin of the gla-cier discharging into it, flashed into sight below we were on the ice-blufls forming the limit of thegreat glacier basin, just as we had been at Humboldt,but, a trifle less fortunate here than at Humboldt, Ifound it necessary to deflect some ten miles to the east-ward, to avoid the inequalities of the glacier basin, andthe great crevasses which cut the ice-bluffs encircling it. 3o6 Northward over the Great Ice Though it had been my good fortune to look downfrom the height of the Inland Ice into four of the great-est glaciers in the world, Jacobshavn,Tossukatek, GreatKariak, and Humboldt, it was with strange feelino-s ofuncertainty that
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