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 . was indicated with pre-cision by the index passing over the graduated scale. Cleats attached to thescale enabled Verhoeff, who made the tidal observations, to read the highestrange of the spring tides with ease. This device gave th
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 . was indicated with pre-cision by the index passing over the graduated scale. Cleats attached to thescale enabled Verhoeff, who made the tidal observations, to read the highestrange of the spring tides with ease. This device gave thorough satisfaction, though in very low temperatures it re-quired constant care to keep the rapid deposition of frost from the vapour of theopen hole from clogging the pulleys and index. (See cut, p. i66.) Through the Great Night 169 On that day, immediately after coffee, the stovepipe,stove, and stove-hole were thoroughly cleaned. Allbedding was then taken from the bunks, and, whenthe weather permitted, carried outside to air. Theentire room was overhauled, and the floor thoroughlyswept. Every Saturday night each member of theparty was required to take a bath. On December 3d, I cut out the first sleeping-bag,and in a day Daisy (Megipsu) had it nearly and I devoted ourselves to keeping the tidegauge in running order. The slope of the bottom. RED CLIFF W^AS SINKING INTO A HUGE DRIFT. was a little less than one inch per foot, and apparentlythe motion of the ice was more rapid here than it wasat Fort Cono^er. Red Cliff was sinkincr into a huee drift that almostburied it from view. On December 9th, my seam-stresses began work on the first deerskin kooletah, orjacket. The last skin in my stock had now been I70 Northward over the Great Ice chewed, and all the skins were ready to be made upinto garments. I completed a sledge, December took a good deal of outdoor exercise, practisingon snow-shoes and ski, visiting the iceberg for ice,which was melted for the w
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