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 . portedseeing sunlight, to the west, on the highest peak ofNorthumberland Island. The barometrical deter-mination of the height of the igloo above sea-levelwas 2050 feet. At 9:20, the next morning. Dr. Cook, Astrijp,and I started, d
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 . portedseeing sunlight, to the west, on the highest peak ofNorthumberland Island. The barometrical deter-mination of the height of the igloo above sea-levelwas 2050 feet. At 9:20, the next morning. Dr. Cook, Astrijp,and I started, dressed in our furs, the Doctor andAstriip with deerskin kooletahs and trousers, and Iwith deerskin kooletah and dogskin trousers. Weall wore kamiks and woollen socks. The Doctor andI took snow-shoes, and Astriip his ski. Our impedi- 199 200 Northward over the ** Great Ice menta consisted of reindeer sleeping-bags and hoods,pemmican, cranberry jam, biscuit, tea, sugar, andcondensed milk, for two days; alcohol lamp andboiler, canteen of alcohol, two spoons, wind matches,shovel, snow-knife, hunting-knife, alpenstock, camera,note-book, aneroid and compass, swing thermometer,maximum and minimum thermometer, candle andwatch, the Dahlgren and Academy of Natural Sciencesflags, and Mrs. Pearys and Maydes sledge morning was gloomy and cloudy, and looked so. THE PATH TO THE ICE-CAP. unpromising that I thought it hardly probable that wewould spend the night on top, but more likely that wewould carry our packs up and return to sleep at thehouse, going up again Monday morning. We crossed the snow-covered terraces between theshore and the foot of the bluffs, on our removing them we clambered, on hands andknees, sometimes over bare rocks and snow patches, tothe knife-edge crest of one of the eroded trap buttressesspringing from the main bluffs. A firm and graduallyascending snow-drift capped this crest, just wideenough at the top for one to walk. It was broken in Im
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