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 . ed to me and were alwayseager to keep close to me, were harnessed to the lightsledge built by Astriip, carrying a load of abouttwo hundred pounds. These dogs were to followme, and behind them would come Astriip with theother ten do
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 . ed to me and were alwayseager to keep close to me, were harnessed to the lightsledge built by Astriip, carrying a load of abouttwo hundred pounds. These dogs were to followme, and behind them would come Astriip with theother ten dogs attached to the big dog-sledge, withthe second doe-sledee in tow, the total load on bothamounting to about one thousand pounds. Thismethod worked fairly well during our first march,which was but a short one, made simply with the 301 302 Northward over the Great Ice object of getting the separation over with, and get-ting straightened out on the long journey. The nextday I found it necessary to make a change, and trans-ferred all the dogs to the big sledge, putting thelittle one again in tow of the other two. We had gone but a short distance, however, whenthe larger dog-sledge, as the result of the severeblows it was getting when travelling over the marble-like sastriigi, broke down, one side bending inwardand breaking all standards on that side. The wreck. W^ITH THE GUIDON. of this side was so complete that for a little while Iwas at a loss what to do, but finally the idea suggesteditself of lashing the remains of the sledge alongsidethe other, makino- one broad, four-foot-wide sledo-ewith three runners. This idea was quickly carriedout, the sledges lashed together and reloaded, theresult proving very satisfactory. The three runnersseemed to make the sledge much more steady, pre-venting it from slatting, and seemed to very materiallyease the blows in passing over the sastrugi. Thedelay incident to the accident, however, shortened our To the Northern End of Greenland 30 0^0 m
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