. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. 564 Northward over the "Great Ice" nic'tt'oritc and llic upper end of this drift, thicklycovered with large gneiss(jse boulders, an
. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. 564 Northward over the "Great Ice" nic'tt'oritc and llic upper end of this drift, thicklycovered with large gneiss(jse boulders, and the wide lane of o[)en water sei)arating the ice in the bay from the siiore at the mouth of the valley, presented difficulties which I could see would re(piire all our resources to overccjme. The next day, Diebitsch began work with the ship's crew and the Eskimos ; the " woman " was lifted out of her bed with jacks, and a rough sledge of spruce poles made for the " ; On the second day, the " woman " was blocked up ready for transport- ation, and the "dog" rolled ui)on its sledge and dragged by the combined force of the ship's crew and my native allies f)ver the boulders and down the sn(jw-drifts to the shore ; then ferried. MOVING THE "WOMAN" ON ROLLERS. across the open water upon a cake of ice, and finally hauled for a dis- tance of about a mile over the surface of the ice in the bay to ^he ship's side, where it was hoisted on board and deposited in the hold. On the third day a heavy timber drag was constructed for the "woman," upon which she was placed and secured, then slowly transported upon iron rollers over a plank tramway laid along a rude road-bed, roughly graded by my Eskimos with the abund- ance of stones in the vicinity. In this way the meteorite was brought to the upper end of the snow-drift. Then after mid- night, when the surface of this drift was frozen firmly, it. Please note that these images ar
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