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 . SENTINEL NUNATAK. Glacier Carving on Rocks in Foreground. easterly bend, the mouth of Olriks Bay and the sharp,black peak of Kirsirviahsuk open up, while the silverfaces of three glaciers can be seen protruding into thesea. Up to t
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 . SENTINEL NUNATAK. Glacier Carving on Rocks in Foreground. easterly bend, the mouth of Olriks Bay and the sharp,black peak of Kirsirviahsuk open up, while the silverfaces of three glaciers can be seen protruding into thesea. Up to the point, the cliffs are wild in outline,beautiful and warm in the colouring of the dark brownsand reds and greys of the various strata, and thegreenish-brown of the intersecting trap-dykes. Eastof the point, gnarled and veined gneiss takes the placeof the stratified rocks, the cliffs lose their warmth of Appendix 461 colour, changing to cold, sombre grey, and every angle,cleft, and opening is occupied by a glacier. Twelveglaciers flow down the cliffs In the twenty-two milesbetween Netiulumi and Ittibloo, at the entrance ofOlriks Bay. This bay—so called, though it is really a fjord,—is a picturesque inlet, and the only one of its kindin the country. Its width at the mouth, measured. VALLEY SCENE, HEAD OF BOWDOIN BAY. Sugar-Loaf Mount, One of the Peaks of the Mountain Dam which Holds theInland Ice in Check, in the Background. somewhat diagonally across to the opposite bluff ofKanga, is seven miles, and from here it extends east-ward seventeen miles, gradually narrowing to a widthof less than two miles; and a massive flat-toppedmountain lies directly across it. As seen fromIttibloo, and in fact from any point until well withinthe bay, this mountain is apparently its head. Justto the left of it, however, a contracted passage permits 462 Northward over the Great Ice farther progress, and, once through these narrows, along, narrow, river-hke stretch of water opens up,completely
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