. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. he place of our encampment was very difficult. Notonly had we to encounter a severe northwest gale, charged withcold at 32° below the freezing-point, accompanied by drift-snowfilling the air so thickly that often no objects at three fathoms dis-tance could be seen, but the dogs became perfectly exhausted frombeing overworked, and from going long without food. On mak-ing inquiries of Henry Smith, I learned that Sharkey and Koojessehad been feeding their own dogs and neglecting my Grccnland-ers, which were now just on the point of giving out. T
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. he place of our encampment was very difficult. Notonly had we to encounter a severe northwest gale, charged withcold at 32° below the freezing-point, accompanied by drift-snowfilling the air so thickly that often no objects at three fathoms dis-tance could be seen, but the dogs became perfectly exhausted frombeing overworked, and from going long without food. On mak-ing inquiries of Henry Smith, I learned that Sharkey and Koojessehad been feeding their own dogs and neglecting my Grccnland-ers, which were now just on the point of giving out. Two ofthem were so knocked up before reaching home that they couldnot pull a pound; one was so fatigued that he repeatedly felldown. I was obliged to lead the way for several miles by thecompass, it being impossible to see the land, though the fiord wasonly from half a mile to two miles wide. Named after O. E. Newton, , of Cincinnati, Ohio. The termination ofNewtons Fiord is in lat. G3° 22 N., long. CG° 0,v V. 510 ARCTIC RESEARCH THE BETUIIN FUOil SL During the afternoon the sun shone down through the stormthat seemed only hugging the earth. For the last nine mileswhich I made along by the west side of the fiord and Peter ForceSound, the mountains would every few moments show a shadedcontour—a ghost-like faintness—by which I was enabled to makemy course without the compass. When within two miles of theigloos I came upon our sledge-tracks of the day before, and theseI followed carefully while they were visible; but, with all mycare, the track was soon lost; and as the land was again closedfrom view, we should have been in grievous difficulty had notthe compass guided me. The risk was indeed great; for in sucha storm we might easily have gone out to sea, or the ice of thebay on which we were traveling might have broken up and car-ried us away. Providentially, we reached the encampment — my fifth, as Icalled it, which was the same as the third—at 5 10 P.
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