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 . to take measurements, we suddenly re-membered that some deerskins which we had tradedfor had been left behind. So we returned, leavingAstrup to make the drawings. The distance beingonly about a mile, we were soon there and got ourt
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 . to take measurements, we suddenly re-membered that some deerskins which we had tradedfor had been left behind. So we returned, leavingAstrup to make the drawings. The distance beingonly about a mile, we were soon there and got ourtwo skins, and then we thought of once more tryingIkwa. This time he seemed quite willing, and it wasa very short time before he was in our boat, his onlyadditional baoro-aore consisting of a borrowed tent, anda piece of narwhal blubber which he swung over thebow. When we stopped to get Astrup, Ikwa walkedback from the shore a little distance, and soon returned 112 Northward over the Great Ice with an Eskimo sled, which we also placed in the also we replenished our water breaker from astream, and were once more on our way. As therewas no wind, we were compelled to row, in which ex-ercise we made Ikwa take his turn. We had passedthrouo-h the Sound dividing Northumberland and Her-bert Islands by five , and could once more see the Astrlip. Dr. NATIVES AND FOREIGNERS. Photo, by Gibson. red cliffs in McCormick Bay very distinctly. Whenabout two miles from Herbert Island, we fell in withapparently the same belt of ice we had encounteredon our outward journey, also the walrus, which seemedquite as plentiful as they were before. Ikwa appar-ently being anxious to tackle them, I steered in thedirection of a hummocky cake on which one animalwas sleeping. Ikwa waited until we were within about Boat Voyage to the Islands 113 ten feet of the cake, when he phinged his harpoon intoits side. At the same instant, a shot from Astriips riflepracticahy settled it. The wahus came
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