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 . rface of this ice-crust had beenbeaten by the wind into the form of amygdaloid, orfurnace slag. A little farther down, where the rushof the wind had been apparently still more furious,the snow had been scoured away entirely, and th
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 . rface of this ice-crust had beenbeaten by the wind into the form of amygdaloid, orfurnace slag. A little farther down, where the rushof the wind had been apparently still more furious,the snow had been scoured away entirely, and thewindward side of every boulder, rock, and pebble wascased thickly in ice, slightly yellow-tinted with thefine detritus the storm had scoured from the cliffs. When I reached the surface of the bay, the changewas startling. Instead of the deep, level covering ofsoft snow which was there four days before, there wasnow over only a portion of it a ragged conglomerate Imprisoned on the Ice-Cap 213 of ice and snow six inches thick at most, while overfully a third of the expanse of the bay the snow hadbeen washed and scoured away completely, leavingthe surface of the ice entirely bare. But my attentioncould not be claimed long- by these things, for theglory of the scene around and overhead overpoweredeverything else. To the north and east, the sky was purple-black,. RED CLIFF HOUSE AFTER THE STORM. shading to exquisite blue at the zenith. Overhead afew dainty, feathery clouds glowed with the irides-cent hues of the humming-birds breast and mother-ofpearl. The western and south-western sky was aflamewith dazzling yellow shading into pale rose and this rose, en silJwiicttc, the majestic cliffs ofJosephine Headland swimming in purple light. Mistypurple and green lights floated over the far-stretch-ing expanse of ice, giving the countless glistening em-erald icebergs an indescribable softness. 2 14 Northward over the Great Ice Even a mile away, I could see that Red Cliff Hou
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