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 . CHAPTER X. EQUIPMENT, ROUTINE, AND BEGINNING OF THE WHITE M Y equipment for themarch across theGreat Ice was theresuh of continuous studyand experiment on everydetail throughout thewinter. The art of travehingupon the Inlan
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 . CHAPTER X. EQUIPMENT, ROUTINE, AND BEGINNING OF THE WHITE M Y equipment for themarch across theGreat Ice was theresuh of continuous studyand experiment on everydetail throughout thewinter. The art of travehingupon the Inland Ice wasin its infancy comparedwith travel over the seaice alonof an arctic shore-line, and the journey I proposed to take was one which,in distance traversed without caches or depots of sup-plies, was unprecedented. Lightness and strength were the two prime factorswhich ruled with iron hand in the working out ofevery detail, because for every ounce of weight whichcould be saved in equipment, an ounce of food couldbe substituted, and on an arctic sledge journey poundsof food and miles of travel are practically synony-mous. As regarded conditions to be encountered, I wasmore or less in the dark : it could not be taken for 277 2/8 Northward over the Great Ice granted that these would be the same from yS northward, as they had been found from 69° southward. As to the probable altitude to be reached, therewas n
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