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 . st of us the surface of the ice was high-er, and the swells apparently longer and flatter thanthose already passed. South-east lay the great feederbasin of the Jacobshavn Glacier stretching eastwardinto the ice-blink, like a great
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 . st of us the surface of the ice was high-er, and the swells apparently longer and flatter thanthose already passed. South-east lay the great feederbasin of the Jacobshavn Glacier stretching eastwardinto the ice-blink, like a great bay, and up throughits centre, like a tide rip in a smooth sea, glistened theragged points of the glacier itself. Just previous tostarting, while walking near the sledges without snow-shoes or alpenstock, I broke into a narrow crevasse,and as I hung for an instant supported by my out-stretched arms, before scrambling out, the fragmentsof the treacherous snow arch went rattlino down the Reconnaissance of 1886 II azure depths till the echoes they awoke were like thechimes of silver bells. Our snow-shoes prevented arepetition of the occur-rence in crossing the net-work of crevasses whichextended east from ourcamp. As we advancedthese disappeared, andin the cold of the earlymorning the entire sur-face became one firmunbroken crust, afford- ing excellent Two or three small pondswhich we met were froz-en just hard enough tosupport us as we halfslid, half skated rapidlyacross on our ski(snow-skates). Whilecrossinof another, Mai-gaard followed me tooclosely ; the ice, crackedand weakened by mypassing, broke, and letthe Princess Thyra through in some five feet ofwater, and it was only with the utmost difficulty thatwe got her out and to the bank again. This mishapbrought us to a halt in a hollow 3300 feet above thesea, and we turned in in the lee of the sledges for afew hours sleep, after which we spent the day dryingour foot-gear and Maigaards sleeping-gear, saturatedby the a
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