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 . in tent, or tupik. The first Eskimo to reach my camp with a teamof dogs found an eager purchaser for the animals,and for some trifling presents he parted with hisdogs and went home on foot. Both Ikwa andNowdingyah said the Eskimos
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 . in tent, or tupik. The first Eskimo to reach my camp with a teamof dogs found an eager purchaser for the animals,and for some trifling presents he parted with hisdogs and went home on foot. Both Ikwa andNowdingyah said the Eskimos had a good manydogs, and the prospect seemed favourable for obtain-ing an excellent dog team for the spring the result of a systematic series of interviews withthe natives who came to Red Cliff, I had, when thespring of 1892 dawned upon us, in my possessioninformation as to the location and ownership of prob-ably every dog in the tribe, and knew also the finan-cial rating of their owners (if such a term may be 154 Northward over the Great Ice used) ; in other words, I knew just what each onespossessions were, and also what each one most desired,and what would be most effective in bartering for thedogs. Occasionally snow-squalls visited us during Octo-ber, though the weather was generally pleasant. OnOctober 3d, the young ice was strong enough for. HORACE GREELEY AND ^SAIREY GAMP. Ikwa to walk half-way across the bay. Cape Rob-ertson, on the opposite shore, was clad in a goodlymantle of white. November 3d, the ice in front ofthe house, 150 feet from the shore, was seventeeninches thick. Ice was still floating in the strait be-tween Herbert and Northumberland Islands andNetiulume on the south shore of Whale throuo-h October the sun was sinking- nearer Boat and Sledge Trips 155 and nearer the horizon, till it sank out of loth, it appeared from behind Cape Cleve-land at 3:10 , very low and much distorted by-refraction. On the 19th, sunlight i
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