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 . redwith 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
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 . redwith 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 nothing to guide me. It might not be over6000 feet ; it might be 15,000. I could only de-vise my equipment in such a way that it wouldmeet, as far as possible, every contingency and THE START FROM RED CLIFF. Both Norwegian ski and Indian snow-shoes wereincluded in my equipment, as each has its advantages,and under the varied conditions of the ice-cap bothare needed. I did not take a tent. As to dogs, I started from Red Cliff with twenty,but one was already in the grasp of the {2X2\. piblocktoand died at the edge of the ice-cap. Two othersdied at the first camp on the ice-cap, and two dayslater a fourth escaped and returned to the others returned with the supporting party, leav- The White March 279 ing me with fourteen, one of which was used up anddied at the next camp, so that I really left
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