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 . medicines. Their diseases are princi-pally rheumatism and lung andbronchial troubles. The causesof death amonor the men comelargely under the terse Westernexpression, with their bootson. A kayak capsizes, and the oc-cupant is hurle
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 . medicines. Their diseases are princi-pally rheumatism and lung andbronchial troubles. The causesof death amonor the men comelargely under the terse Westernexpression, with their bootson. A kayak capsizes, and the oc-cupant is hurled into the icywater ; a hunter harpoons a wal-rus or bearded seal from theice, a bight of the line catchesround arm or leg, and the bigbrute drags him under to his death ; an iceberg cap-sizes as he is passing it; a rock or snow-slide from thesteep shore cliffs crushes him ; or a bear tears himmortally with a stroke of his paw ; and so on. Occa-sionally, in the past, starvation has wiped out an en-tire village. On the death of a man or woman, the body, fullydressed, is laid straight upon its back on a skin ortwo, and some extra articles of clothing placed uponit. It is then covered with another skin, and thewhole covered in with a low stone structure, to pro-tect the body from dogs, foxes, and ravens. A lampwith some blubber is placed close to the grave; and. FACE CARVED FROM VER-TEBRA OF NARWHAL. Appendix II 507
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