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 . were enter-tained by the calving of the big glacier at the head ofthe bay, which I afterwards named the Sun Glacier. The glacier face had a precipitate front about ahundred feet high. Far up the wide fjord borderedby steep black cl
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 . were enter-tained by the calving of the big glacier at the head ofthe bay, which I afterwards named the Sun Glacier. The glacier face had a precipitate front about ahundred feet high. Far up the wide fjord borderedby steep black cliffs that rise a thousand to fifteenhundred feet above the big ice river, we could see theInland Ice that incessantly feeds the glacier and by itsresistless force pushes it forward into the sea. Theice-front had advanced to deep water and, as we looked,our attention attracted by ominous sounds from theglacier, a great mass broke off with a thundering re-port, dashing water and spray high into the air ; andthe new-born berg went teetering through the youngice, which it shattered far around. On one of the lesser glaciers back of my camp was 148 Northward over the Great Ice a big blotch of red colour, sharply contrasting with thewhite surface, and streaming down the glacier vivid was this colour that I named the glacier theGlacier of the Scarlet GLACIER OF THE SCARLET HEART. We reached Red Cliff House after a five hours tripfrom the head of the bay. The Eskimo dog and Jackpulled Mrs. Peary, myself, and the load, aggregatingabout five hundred pounds, the entire distance withcomparative ease. I determined that this should bemy last trip for the season, as I found I was in no con-dition to undergo severe physical exertion. The threemonths confinement with my leg had affected my en-durance, and the leg itself gave me trouble if I over-exerted. At nine on Sunday, October iith, Gibson, whowas on watch, reported an aurora. It was a pale,wavy curtain extending nearly
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