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 . h puzzled me for along time, though I finally saw a reason for believ-ing that it was caused by the deposition of snow in To the Northern End of Greenland Z^y the eddy caused by the break in the crevasse. Theten miles detour to the
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 . h puzzled me for along time, though I finally saw a reason for believ-ing that it was caused by the deposition of snow in To the Northern End of Greenland Z^y the eddy caused by the break in the crevasse. Theten miles detour to the eastward enabled me to flankall the crevasses, and again I took up my course north-east, hoping to clear the basin of Sherard-OsborneFjord as fortun-ately as I hadweathered thoseof Humboldtand CampPetermann thesurface was com-paratively level,and we kept thehighest summitsof the PetermannMountains insig^ht for fortymiles, then theaneroid began toshow a oradualrise, the snow be-came softer anddeeper, and 1knew that wewere beginningthe ascent of thedivide betweenthe Petermannand Sherard-Os-borne Basins. Still we were able to make fairly good progress,and three and a half marches brought us, June5th, to the summit of the divide, 5700 feet above sea-level. From this divide summit, as in every pre-vious instance, we found the travelling very good,. CREVASSE OF THE GREAT ICE. 3o8 Northward over the Great Ice and with the wind behind us were able to make nine-teen and one-half and twenty-one miles, respectively,in two successive marches, camping in view of She-rard-Osborne Fjord, as I at first supposed, on the8th of June. I had not expected to sight land againso soon, and if the maps were correct, it should havetaken about two marches more to have brouo-htme within sight of this inlet, but I assumed thatnaturally the delineation of the inner portion of the ICE MOUND, PETERMANN BASIN. great fjord might be considerably out in latitude,and that what I saw before me must b
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