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 . THE HARBOUR PICTURESQUE IN NIGHT SHADOWS. To Dr. Cooks care may be attributed the almostcomplete exemption of the party from even themildest indispositions, and personally I owe much tohis professional skill, and unrufTfled patienc
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 . THE HARBOUR PICTURESQUE IN NIGHT SHADOWS. To Dr. Cooks care may be attributed the almostcomplete exemption of the party from even themildest indispositions, and personally I owe much tohis professional skill, and unrufTfled patience and cool-ness in an emergency. In addition to his work in hisspecial ethnological field, in which he has obtained alarge mass of most valuable material concerning a 4-4 Northward over the Great Ice practically unstudied tribe, he was always helpful andan indefatigable worker. Verhoeff, besides contributing generously to theexpense of the expedition, was devoted to his meteoro-logical and tidal observations and made a completeand valuable series of both. Gibson, a natural hunter, quick with rifle and gun,in addition to his ornithological work, contributedmore largely than any other member of the party toour supply of FIRE-SWEPT ST, JOHNS. Astriip, a young Norwegian, a boy in years, but aman in grit and endurance, was one among a thousandfor the long and lonely journey during which he wasmy sole companion. Henson, my faithful coloured boy, a hard workerand apt at anything, being in turn cook, hunter, dogdriver, housekeeper, and body-guard, showed himself,in powers of endurance and ability to withstand cold,the equal of others in the party. My acknowledgments of my obligations to themembers of my party would be incomplete without Search for Verhoeff—Homeward Voyage 425 reference to Mrs. Peary. Outside of the unspeakablecomfort of her soothing presence in the time when atthe threshold of a field of effort, in which pure brutephysical fitness and strength are a sine qua n
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