. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. > ; f ti 1 » W i 222 Northward over the " Great Ice " ready to ^o clown to the cape with me, and piittini^r a jlask of rum in my
. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. > ; f ti 1 » W i 222 Northward over the " Great Ice " ready to ^o clown to the cape with me, and piittini^r a jlask of rum in my pocket, and ; my alpenstock in one hand and a bull's-eye lantern in 'the other, I started off with him. We made crood time to the cape, and just before reachin!^rit,heard Jack bark well up thediff in answer to my shout. Then w^e left the sled_L,re track, and went directly to the sio-- nal llai^r, follow!n^^ Dr. Cook's track of the day before. While at the sio^nal staff, a mournful lono^- drawn-out howl brokethrouo-h the gloomy, starless nioht, from the darker _L(loom oi the bluff above us, and filled me with forebodings. I shouted Dr. Cook's name as^ain and again, without answer, except Jack's dismal wail. A few steps from the signal, we found the boys' tracks leading straight up the steep snow-slojie to wards the trap ledge, which I knew jjrojected from the bluff about half-way up. I^^llowing the tracks as well as we could through the gloom, we found two or three places where the boys had slipped and slid some dis- tance ; and then, just as a particularly mournful howl came from Jack, I saw one of Dr. Cook's snow-shoes. JACK. h. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Peary, Robert E. , 1856-1920. New York : F. A. Stokes
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