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 . rkham, Petermann, Barrow, Mel-ville, and others, needs no apologies or are no pages of Englands history on whichshe prides herself more than those on which are in-scribed the work and the discoveries of her sonswithin
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 . rkham, Petermann, Barrow, Mel-ville, and others, needs no apologies or are no pages of Englands history on whichshe prides herself more than those on which are in-scribed the work and the discoveries of her sonswithin the realm of noonday nights and midnightsuns, and there is no American that is not proud ofthe records of De Haven, Kane, Hayes, Hall, DeLong, Greely, Lockwood, and Schley. Whatever may be said against Arctic exploration,it remains a definite fact, that no other portion of the Ixxx Introduction globe possesses such universal attraction for youngand old, illiterate and intelligent, weak and strong, asthis. And one thing is as certain as that the NorthStar will continue to shine : regardless of utility ornon-utility, the inherent charm of Arctic work, andthe irrepressible restlessness of the human animal aslong- as there remains a corner of the earth unknownto him, will keep up efforts in the White North till every square mile of sea and land has PART 1. RECONNAISSANCE OF THE GREENLAND INLAND ICE, 1886. St. Johns to Godhavn on the Whaler Eagle—Godhavn to PakitsokFjord in an Oomiak—Eastward over the Ice-Cap—7500 Feet above theSea—Back to the Land—Sailing down the Ice-Slopes—Forty MilesIN A Night—Into the Tossukatek Fjord—Across the Base of Nour-SOAK Peninsula—Fossil Beds of Atanekerdluk—Aboard the Eagleagain and across Baffins Bay—Dexterity Harbour—Cape Adair—The Savage West Coast—A Playful Whale—Natives—Bears—AnArctic Hurricane—Cumberland Sound—Fighting for Liberty—BackTO St. Johns.
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