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 . feet to leewardof where the house had been, and thus night settleddown upon us. We were lying out on the ice-cap over 2000 feetabove sea-level, wholly without shelter, on the top ofthe drift, beneath which our snow hut was
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 . feet to leewardof where the house had been, and thus night settleddown upon us. We were lying out on the ice-cap over 2000 feetabove sea-level, wholly without shelter, on the top ofthe drift, beneath which our snow hut was snow flew past us with such a roar that I had toshout at the top of my voice to be heard by Astriip,who was lying partly upon me. After an hour or so,his weight and that of the snow became oppressive,and I worked myself loose and crawled a little to oneside and to windward, into the wind ditch alongside thebig drift over the house. Here in a sitting posture, Imprisoned on the Ice-Cap 205 with back to the wind and side against the drift, I satout the night. By lowering my chin upon my breast,I could keep most of the drift out of my face, and byraising my head I could feel rather than see the twodark prostrate objects close to me to leeward, and atintervals shout to them to inquire if they were warmenough. Occasionally I dozed a little, but most of the time. MOONLIGHT ON THE ICE-CAP. I was studying how we should extricate ourselvesfrom our predicament if the storm continued forseveral days. My greatest source of anxiety was thefact that the suddenness with which we were compelledto free ourselves from the drift had left our outerclothing and foot-gear deep under the drift, my dog-skin trousers being the only thing that was broughtout. These, however, and the shovel, I had close tome. I knew that we were good for at least twenty-four hours longer in the bags, but if the storm con- 2o6 Northward over the Great Ice tinned longer than that, I should have to try and digout a koolet
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