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 . p to usfrom far below, and I was surprised to hear thefamiliar drone of a bumble-bee. We soon caughtsight of the insect, which lingered in our neighbour- 34^ Northward over the Great Ice hood for some time. The flies that buzzed ar
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 . p to usfrom far below, and I was surprised to hear thefamiliar drone of a bumble-bee. We soon caughtsight of the insect, which lingered in our neighbour- 34^ Northward over the Great Ice hood for some time. The flies that buzzed aroundus were ahogether too numerous to count. The daywas deHghtfully warm and cahn. Our silent contemplation of the sublime view atan end, I opened the box containing my transit, andset it firmly among the rocks to make my observa-tions for position. The interims between these obser-vations (equalaltitudes fromthree hours be-fore local noon tothree hours after-wards) gave timefor a round ofphotographicviews and notesupon our sur-roundings, and tobegin the con-struction of thecairn, whichshould be in thecoming years thesilent record ofour visit result of theobservations wasthe fixing of theposition of Ob-servation Pointas 81° 37 5 northlatitude and 34° 5west longitude. The observa-tions finished, Ibrought out the little silver flask of brandy which. THE STARS AND STRIPES AT NAVY 4, 1892.
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