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 . tacked three weeks longfconflict with the floe ice had cost me just that amountof time which I had hoped to devote to the largeamount of work preliminary to carrying out themain purposes of my expedition. About threemonths,
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 . tacked three weeks longfconflict with the floe ice had cost me just that amountof time which I had hoped to devote to the largeamount of work preliminary to carrying out themain purposes of my expedition. About threemonths, however, yet remained to us for outdoorwork, before settling down to the comparative in-activity of the long winter night. The first thing to do, of course, was to select asuitable site for our camp, put up the building, andsettle my arctic household to rights as soon as pos-sible. Then, unless the Eskimos came to my head-quarters, it was essential to communicate with had reason to believe that one or more of theirhunters would be of great advantage to us. More- 73 74 Northward over the Great Ice over, I wanted them Hving near us. I wished to be-come weU acquainted with these most isolated andnortherly of all peoples, and, for purposes of studyingthis interesting tribe, I hoped to induce not a few ofthem to spend the winter months at or near our SITE OF RED CLIFF HOUSE. On the South Shore of McCormick Bay. Then the next twelve weeks would be a busy timefor my hunters, for we had the winter supply of freshmeat, and also the deer- and sealskins needed for apart of my arctic outfit, to procure. I hoped, too, thatwe should find some of the native women useful insewing our skin garments. I wished also, if possible,to send a sledge party on the Inland Ice acrossPrudhoe Land to the north, to establish one or morecaches of supplies for the use of the party to the northcoast in the following spring. Handicapped as mylittle party was by my temporary disability for all Prepa
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