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 . other, Mai-gaard followed me tooclosely ; the ice, crackedand weakened by mypassing, broke, and letthe Princess Thyra through in some five feet ofwater, and it was only with the utmost difficulty thatwe got her out and to the bank
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 . other, Mai-gaard followed me tooclosely ; the ice, crackedand weakened by mypassing, broke, and letthe Princess Thyra through in some five feet ofwater, and it was only with the utmost difficulty thatwe got her out and to the bank again. This mishapbrought us to a halt in a hollow 3300 feet above thesea, and we turned in in the lee of the sledges for afew hours sleep, after which we spent the day dryingour foot-gear and Maigaards sleeping-gear, saturatedby the accident and frozen stiff. As soon as the sun got around to the north-westand the snow had hardened sufficiently to supportour sledges, we strapped our snow-shoes on and GREENLAND SMALL BOY. 12 Northward Over the Great Ice started again. We soon reached a long, narrow lake,stretching across our path to the left, and not yetfrozen hard enough to support us. To flank this lakecost us a detour of two miles, and even then we werecompelled to wade through the morass of saturatedsnow which surrounded it and extended far on SOUTH COAST OF DISCO ISLAND, EAST OF GODHAVN. Tabular Berg in Foreground. Soon after midnight the snow surface became firmand coarsely granular with occasional small patchesof snow of marble-like fineness and whiteness, sou-venirs of the last storm. Later we encountered areas of glazed snow, of suchhardness that even the brads in our sandals and thesteel shoes of the sledges scarcely left a trace. Thefierce morning gale brought us to a standstill 4100feet above the sea, the entire surface of the ice-blink, as far as we could see, glazed and shining Reconnaissance of 1886 13 beneath the morning sun, with a bhnding brilHancy
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