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 . AHNINGAHNAH. (bearded seal). She went to work sewing under theguidance of Daisy, and was married before we re-turned home. We really had no timeduring the winter nightto 2frow tired of the dark-ness or to weary of oursurroundings.
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 . AHNINGAHNAH. (bearded seal). She went to work sewing under theguidance of Daisy, and was married before we re-turned home. We really had no timeduring the winter nightto 2frow tired of the dark-ness or to weary of oursurroundings. Duringthe winter all the menof my party emulatedone another in the effortto produce the best prac-tical sledo-e. Modelling-the sledges in a generalway on the McChntockpattern, I found we couldsafely reduce the weighttwo-thirds or more. While McClintocks sledgesweiorhed one hundred and twenty-five pounds or more apiece, I found we couldturn out sledges of anequal carrying capacity,weighing only thirty-fiveto forty-eight with sleep-ing-bags, too, resulted ina complete change ofequipment in this re-spect. Our sleeping-bagswere evolved from actualexperience in sleepingout-of-doors during thewinter night. My assist-ants entered heartily in-Each was eager to work,Every minute. TOOKUMINGWAH. to the work of preparation. and all made suororestions of value 1/2 Northward over the Great Ice detail of our preparations was scanned, discussed,and criticised. The activity of mind and expendi-ture of physical energy which all this called for,helped to keep us well in body and cheerful and san-guine in temper. We did a good deal of had a very complete arctic library, and this waschiefly in demand. The fact that we were livingunder arctic conditions, whetted the appetite of myboys for records of Arctic exploration. All thesebooks were eagerly devoured for the story they con-tained, the adventures they recorded, and the usefulhints we might derive from them. Somehow w
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