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 . DALRYMPLE ROCK. nestle in summer many grass-carpeted, flower-sprin-kled, sun-kissed nooks, where mild-eyed deer browse,and twittering snow-buntings fill the air with liquidnotes. Beyond the inherently attractive natural features of
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 . DALRYMPLE ROCK. nestle in summer many grass-carpeted, flower-sprin-kled, sun-kissed nooks, where mild-eyed deer browse,and twittering snow-buntings fill the air with liquidnotes. Beyond the inherently attractive natural features ofthis region, it has claims upon a strong human interestin that it is, and has been for ages, the eternally ice- 44^ Northward over the Great Ice imprisoned home of a Httle tribe of happy, care-free,independent, seh-supporting aborigines, the mostnortherly known people on the globe. Historically the country has been known since 1616,when Bylot and Bafhn, after a surprising voyagethrough Melville Bay, ran along a portion of the coast,applied a few names, and anchored in one or two places. Years after, Davis sighted the land again, and in1818 Sir John Ross discovered that it was SAUNDERS ISLAND. Since then. Cape York, the southern promontory ofthe country, has been on the path of the whalers enroute to Lancaster Sound, and the ships of everySmith-Sound Arctic Expedition have passed along itsshores. This coast presents characteristics differentfrom those of any portion of the west coast of Green-land, to the south. The nearly continuous glacierfaces of Melville Bay, broken only here and there bynunataks, as well as the meshwork of narrow fjords I Appendix 449 and labyrinth of off-lying islands, forming the coastfrom the Devils Thumb to Cape Farewell, give placehere to the bold continuous lines of the main rock-mass of the Glacial Continent, presenting impregnableramparts which need no picket-line of islands to breakthe assaults of sea and ice. The following geological d
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