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 . found I had onlyninety pounds ofpemmican on whichto feed two men andsix dogs till our journeywas ended, and at the ratewe were travellinof it would takeover twenty days. The numer-ous snow-squalls and the inter-minable fogs had gre
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 . found I had onlyninety pounds ofpemmican on whichto feed two men andsix dogs till our journeywas ended, and at the ratewe were travellinof it would takeover twenty days. The numer-ous snow-squalls and the inter-minable fogs had greatly delayed us. I decided thatwe must abandon one sledge and throw away every ON THE HOME STRETCH. 374 Northward over the Great Ice pound of baggage we could spare. We re-packedour load on the little sledge, and threw away a pair ofski, a pair of snow-shoes, and other articles, altogetherweighing about fifty pounds. I took the big sledgein tow until I saw that the small one carried its loadwell through the heavy snow, and then I cast old Faith-ful adrift. We made over sixteen miles, though thesnow was very deep and hard to pull through. Aswe camped at six on July 22d, a skua or jaegergull, flying from east to west, passed about fifty feetabove my head. A frost-fog descended on us, cover-ing everything with its crystals. Next day the fog kept with us as
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