. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. The Laiul bcyoiul the Icc-Caj) 467 rations for oiirsclvtis for the return journc)-. Tlu'sc wcrt: left in the camp. Never shall 1 forget that
. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. The Laiul bcyoiul the Icc-Caj) 467 rations for oiirsclvtis for the return journc)-. Tlu'sc wcrt: left in the camp. Never shall 1 forget that tinu; ami scene ; three exhausted nu:n and nine starved doL^^s. standiiiL; there in the .L^aunt, {ro/. desert. 'I'hese and the '^listenini; sn ow, the steel-l)lue sk\-, and the cold white su n. l'"i\«' hundred miles in an air-line across a waste of snow to the nearc;st human hein'--. with insuttui<-nt rations for ev(Mi that (Kstance, \-et we were s till f. U Ml!''. MORAINE CONE. the other wa)-. I think that, as we started, each one of us felt an unspoken prayer that the constant jieti- tions of the ones in the far-off homeland, where birds were sini^nno- and (lowers hlooniin^', miL;ht l)e listened to, and that the ; ]']\v. would watch over us. I felt then, as I feel now, that in that cool, deliber- ate moment we took the; L^olden l)owl of lif(? in our hands, and that the bowl had suddenl)- L,^rown very I. W' ' i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Peary, Robert E. , 1856-1920. New York : F. A. Stokes
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