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 . round to intothe teeth of the storm. Clinging to the weather endof the bridge, with everything except our eyes cased in the snow, stood Jack-man and myself, watch-ing the mad seas whichcame tumbling after usthrough the blindingdrif
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 . round to intothe teeth of the storm. Clinging to the weather endof the bridge, with everything except our eyes cased in the snow, stood Jack-man and myself, watch-ing the mad seas whichcame tumbling after usthrough the blindingdrift. For a few mo-ments, there was uttersilence as to humansounds. Then a g-reenmonster flune theEagles stern high in theair, poured over thetaffrail, burst throughthe propeller trunk, andpassed ahead. Let hercomer—a jump to theengine-room signal, thewheel flew round, thebraces eased off, and,urged by propeller, sails,and rudder, the Eaglewhirled like a top, rose to a second grey-green mon-ster, climbed through its top, and plunged down itsrearward slope. The foreyard cockbilled with a loudcrash, the foretopsail flew out with a report like apiece of artillery, then split in thrashing streamers,and then with sails of iron straining at the sheets tillthey were like the slant, half-closed wings of her swoop-ing namesake, the Eagle heeled over to the hurricane,. CAPTAIN ARTHUR JACKMANOF THE EAGLE.
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