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 . at I had forsome time surmised, that such maps as we have of 264 Northward over the Great Ice Inglefield Gulf and the upper portion of Whale Soundhave been drawn entirely from the reports of thenatives, and that no explorers eye ha
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 . at I had forsome time surmised, that such maps as we have of 264 Northward over the Great Ice Inglefield Gulf and the upper portion of Whale Soundhave been drawn entirely from the reports of thenatives, and that no explorers eye has seen thisregion beyond the range of vision from the easternend of Herbert Island. About six oclock in the morning, we reachedAcademy Bay, and starting across it for the point onthe opposite side where we were told Tahwanasigloo was situated, we reached, a short distance out in the Bay, a littlegneissose we had beentravelling nownearly twelvehours, I decidedto make our nextbivouac here,which we pro-ceeded to do byspreading oursleeping- bagsupon a shelteredledge at the footof a vertical rockface exposed tothe sun. Awak-ing several hourslater rested andrefreshed, we ateour breakfastandthen climbedto the summit ofthe island, whereI set up my tran-sit, and took a complete round of angles and a continu-ous series of photographic views. From this little. ROCK STRATIFICATION. North Side of Little Matterhorn. Around Inglefield Gulf by Sledge 265 island, which I named Ptarmiofan, from the numeroustracks upon it, our course lay straight across the mouthof the Bay to Tahwanas igloo. Arriving here, I madeno stop except to unload my sledge, and then, with Kud-lah for driver, kept straight up the Gulf eastward for thegreat glacier, whose gleaming face we could distinctlysee from the igloo. It was just after midnight when weleft Tahwanas. and we found the snow much deeperand softer beyond here, and the travelling was conse-
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