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 . THE FIVE-GLACIER-VALLEY Oct. iSth. We found that Horace Greeleys wife was acharacter. Gaunt and tall in figure, brown and wrin-kled of face, she went into hysterics of laughter atthe sight of Mrs. Peary, and when se
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 . THE FIVE-GLACIER-VALLEY Oct. iSth. We found that Horace Greeleys wife was acharacter. Gaunt and tall in figure, brown and wrin-kled of face, she went into hysterics of laughter atthe sight of Mrs. Peary, and when seated beside thestove at Red Cliff, she fell into such a paroxysm ofvolubility, regardless of the fact that none of us un-derstood a word she was saying, that she at once 152 Northward over the Great Ice received the endearing name of Sairey old couple had been at Polaris House and stillpossessed some articles given them by members ofDr. Halls party. Among these were a sextant boxand a strine of NOWDINGYAH. Late on November ist, another family arrived,Annowkah, his wife Megipsu, and their baby, fromNerke, far to the north-west towards Cape Alexander,where they were living in their solitary hut nearer tothe Pole than any other human beings in the were a clean, well-dressed, good-looking youngcouple ; the woman particularly intelligent and brightin appearance. We called Megipsu The Daisy. The little wo- Boat and Sledge Trips 153 man was shrewd enough to perceive at once the ad-vantages of becoming an attache of my mansion, andshe proved such a fine seamstress and worked herselfso completely into our good graces, that I finally closeda contract with her to settle down in a snow iglooclose to Red Cliff and remain with us until the returnof the sun, making up our fur clothing and sleeping-bags. Annowkah went to work with a will upon the con-struction of a snow igloo, and soon had it roofed the interior was upholstered with a rubberblanket, an over
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