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 . KEATE PEOPLE. village that was able to walk, and as we moved alongwith the men beside or close behind our sledge, thewomen behind them, and the old men and childrenstraggling along in the rear, I could think of nothingbut a circus
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 . KEATE PEOPLE. village that was able to walk, and as we moved alongwith the men beside or close behind our sledge, thewomen behind them, and the old men and childrenstraggling along in the rear, I could think of nothingbut a circus being escorted out of a country town byits admirers. At Keate we found Ahngodoblaho, or the dogman, as we called him, because we had first known himas the proud possessor of three magnificent Eskimo 256 Northward over the Great Ice dogs, trained to fight the polar bear, quick and power-ful as wolves, yet apparently willing to be also we found Mahotia, or the Comedian, ashe had been nicknamed. These two men, with theirfamilies, were domiciled in stone and turf igloos,banked in now with snow, and still further protectedby long, narrow, snow entrances, the houses built upona little gently sloping plateau, a hundred feet or soabove high-water line and beside a fair-sized THE POPULATION OF NETIULUME. Presents of smoked-glass goggles to the men,needles to the women, and biscuits all round to thenumerous children, put our relations with the nativesupon the most amicable basis, and in a very shorttime I had purchased the three fine bear-dogs fromAhngodoblaho, and a generous load of walrus meatfor my dogs from the Comedian. Within an hourafter we had touched the ice-foot at Keate, Kyos whipwas cracking merrily as we dashed rapidly southwardacross the frozen surface of Whale Sound on a bee- Around Inglefield Gulf by Sledge 257 line for Netiulume, faithful Ikwa, with a scrub teamof young dogs, following us ; while Gibson, with hisload of meat, and the rest of the n
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