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 . VALLEY SCENE, HEAD OF BOWDOIN BAY. Sugar-Loaf Mount, One of the Peaks of the Mountain Dam which Holds theInland Ice in Check, in the Background. somewhat diagonally across to the opposite bluff ofKanga, is seven miles, and from her
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 . VALLEY SCENE, HEAD OF BOWDOIN BAY. Sugar-Loaf Mount, One of the Peaks of the Mountain Dam which Holds theInland Ice in Check, in the Background. somewhat diagonally across to the opposite bluff ofKanga, is seven miles, and from here it extends east-ward seventeen miles, gradually narrowing to a widthof less than two miles; and a massive flat-toppedmountain lies directly across it. As seen fromIttibloo, and in fact from any point until well withinthe bay, this mountain is apparently its head. Justto the left of it, however, a contracted passage permits 462 Northward over the Great Ice farther progress, and, once through these narrows, along, narrow, river-hke stretch of water opens up,completely land-locked, with low, rolling, grassyshores, on either side rising gradually to the bordersof the ice-cap a few miles distant. Here is the homeand favourite haunt of the reindeer, where, shelteredfrom the cold, damp, seaward fogs, and the biting, ice-.
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