. 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. ,:i,fmA-m«^. **• Around Inglcficld Gulf by Sledge 263 men with the fact that I wished to purchase from them such material for clothini; as th
. 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. ,:i,fmA-m«^. **• Around Inglcficld Gulf by Sledge 263 men with the fact that I wished to purchase from them such material for clothini; as they mi«^dit have, we kept on our course to the head of the Gulf, the two men accompanyini^^ us, runnin^^ alternately behind and alonirside of the sledi^a;. All the way up to this point from Ittibloo, I had able to look directly into a very considerable bay en the north side of the Gulf, a bay extending about due north to the ice-cap, where it ended at two or three great glaciers, separated »'. LION ISLANDS. Looking from Nunatoksoah. by black nunataks. This was evidently the bay which Astriip, in his ice-cap reconnaissance during August, had reported as cutting across his path, and which he and Gibson had reported as having seen, during their September and October ice-cap journeys, extending from near the head of Tooktoo Valley southward to Whale Sound. Now, as we proceeded up the Sound from Tahwana's temporary igloo, the panorama of Inglefield Gulf began to open out l^efore me, and I recognised as a certainty what I had for some time surmised, that such maps as we have of. 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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