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 . PART 1. RECONNAISSANCE OF THE GREENLAND INLAND ICE, 1886. St. Johns to Godhavn on the Whaler Eagle—Godhavn to PakitsokFjord in an Oomiak—Eastward over the Ice-Cap—7500 Feet above theSea—Back to the Land—Sailing down the Ice-Slopes—
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 . PART 1. RECONNAISSANCE OF THE GREENLAND INLAND ICE, 1886. St. Johns to Godhavn on the Whaler Eagle—Godhavn to PakitsokFjord in an Oomiak—Eastward over the Ice-Cap—7500 Feet above theSea—Back to the Land—Sailing down the Ice-Slopes—Forty MilesIN A Night—Into the Tossukatek Fjord—Across the Base of Nour-SOAK Peninsula—Fossil Beds of Atanekerdluk—Aboard the Eagleagain and across Baffins Bay—Dexterity Harbour—Cape Adair—The Savage West Coast—A Playful Whale—Natives—Bears—AnArctic Hurricane—Cumberland Sound—Fighting for Liberty—BackTO St. ON THE GREAT ICE. PART I. RECONNAISSANCE OF THE GREENLAND INLAND ICE, 1886. HE Navy Depart-ment having grant-ed my applicationfor leave, I made thenecessary arrangementsand left Sydney, C. B., onthe steam whaler Eagle,Captain Jackman, Master,late in May, 1886. The northward voyageto Greenland was oneof intense interest andnovelty to me. The masterly way in which theEagles solid iron-clad bow was handled by Jackmanto smash a passage through the early-season ice ofDavis Strait was a revelation, and the bracing air, thedaylight growing till the whole twenty-four hourswere brilliant in sunlight, and the endless successionof contrasts, make the voyage a never-to-be-forgottenmemory. One day a continuous succession of grinding, shiver-ing shocks as the Eagle rammed the ice ; a constantstopping and backing, then going ahead again ; a con-tinual rattling of the rudder-chains as the helm washurled port, starboard, then port again ; and a contin-ual cry from the man in the crows-nest conning the
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