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 . ng eyes and cracked andblistered face had regained something like their nor-mal condition, and we packed the sledges over themountains and dowa to the tent on our backs, andreturned to Ritenbenk. Here much to my regret Iwas obliged
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 . ng eyes and cracked andblistered face had regained something like their nor-mal condition, and we packed the sledges over themountains and dowa to the tent on our backs, andreturned to Ritenbenk. Here much to my regret Iwas obliged to part with my tawny-bearded, blue-eyed friend Maigaard, and go on alone to the Tossu-katek Glacier and the base of Noursoak Peninsula. The voyage in a small boat from Ritenbenk to Kek-ertak, where I was to obtain my crew and oomiak forthe journey up the fjord, was without special incident 22 Northward over the Great Ice except the waiting one night in the rain at the blackpoint of Niakornak for the swiftly drifting bergs andice-pans to give us an opportunity to cross the black rocks of the point tossed and pulled at theboats painter, the rain pattered merrily on my rubberblanket as on a tin roof, and the point itself under itssable canopy of clouds, with ragged veils of rain driv-ing across it, was as wild a piece of rockwork as Ihave ever ESKIMO KAYAKERS EFFECTING A LANDING. From Kekertak I pushed on up the TossukatekFjord in an oomiak, manned by a crew of broad-shouldered, red-cheeked, white-toothed young men,the finest specimens of Eskimos I have seen. To myinexperienced eye, the fjord seemed utterly impass-able. From shore to shore it was filled with a con-fusion of huge flat-topped bergs, the narrow canonsand tortuous lanes between them apparently packedsolid with berg fragments and pans of floe ice. But Reconnaissance of 1886 23 my pilots in the kayaks seemed to know by instinctwhere there was a passage, and on the second day wereached the head of the
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