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 . red -|-i6° F. Inamed our resting-place Camp Tooktoo (the Eskimoword for deer), and here I wrote my instructions forthe Inland Ice party, appointing Astrup, the most ex-perienced snow and ice traveller of my party, leaderof the litt
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 . red -|-i6° F. Inamed our resting-place Camp Tooktoo (the Eskimoword for deer), and here I wrote my instructions forthe Inland Ice party, appointing Astrup, the most ex-perienced snow and ice traveller of my party, leaderof the little expedition. The object of the party, consisting of Astrup, Gib-son and Verhoeff, was to establish a depot of pemmi-can, biscuit, and milk, across Prudhoe Land near the 130 Northward over the Great Ice southern angle of the Humboldt Glacier. This depotwas for the use of my advance party of next spring,and was to be located preferably upon a nunatak ifsuch could be found in the neighbourhood. Astriip and his party were to have ample rationsfor twenty days for their own use, and I thought theycould probably advance the depot one hundred milesin this time—i. e., cover the same distance that I hadin 86. Saturday morning, after our first night in camp,Astrup went up the slopes to the ice-cap to select thebest route for carrying up the provisions. The rest of. FOETAL GLACIERS. South Shore McCormick Bay. the party went after the deer killed the night before,and returned with it and another. Astrup returned inabout six hours with a favourable report. He estim- ^-^ _^-- _J fv. in .^?;. 0 01 ~-^)^ 2 Ml , 0 0 \ -2. S \ VSSSiijii 11. \siM- LlI Q_
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