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 . cks, somelying in such positions as to afford a natural shelterto man or beast. Water here was continually flowing down the rockto the sea, and it made an excellent place for a camp. On the return from other end of island, two foxe
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 . cks, somelying in such positions as to afford a natural shelterto man or beast. Water here was continually flowing down the rockto the sea, and it made an excellent place for a camp. On the return from other end of island, two foxes,probably very young, being attracted by a piece ofblubber I had taken from the fox-trap, came withineight feet of me, so if rocks had not covered theground I might have caught one. Had no rifle with me. Temperature on summit 46°, like a spring day, butat one time rain. J. M. Verhoeff. CHAPTER IV. BOAT AND SLEDGE TRIPS. Our Excursion to the Head of McCormick Bay—A Sledge PartyMounts to the Inland Ice—The Attempt to Make an Advance SupplyDepot Fails—Boat Journeys to Murchison Sound and across the Bay—Exciting Battle with a School of Walrus—Our First Sledge Jour-ney FROM Red Cliff—The Birth of an Iceberg—Deer in Plenty—Many Natives Visit us—Their Snow Huts Reared around our House—Our Bright Native Seamstress—The Winter Night Enfolds CHAPTER IV. BOAT AND SLEDGE TRIPS.
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