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 . dge was piled high withseals and sealskins obtained from Tahwana. We did not stop until we reached the temporarysnow igloo at which we had first found the doo-s were unfastened from the sledore andwe made preparations
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 . dge was piled high withseals and sealskins obtained from Tahwana. We did not stop until we reached the temporarysnow igloo at which we had first found the doo-s were unfastened from the sledore andwe made preparations for our bivouac. The weatherstill being perfect, as it had been throughout ourentire journey, I simply excavated a rectangular pitin a convenient snow-drift with a wall of snow-blocksranged across the windward end and part way downtwo sides as a wind guard. Here, after our eveningcup of tea was made, we turned in in our sleeping-bags 270 Northward over the Great Ice and had the most enjoyable and in fact the only un-interrupted sleep during our entire journey. Rising rested and refreshed as the sun rolledround into the west, I started with Mrs. Peary andthe twelve-year-old Eskimo boy Sipsu for an examina-tion of the glacier near us. Scaling the seaward endof its eastern lateral moraine, we reached the sharpridge of the moraine and then climbed up its rapidly. GORGE OF HURLBUT GLACIER. ascendinof oradient towards the narrow o-oro-e in thecliffs through which the glacier forced its way fromthe interior ice-cap. This glacier, which I christened Hurlbut Glacier,though not of the first magnitude, was particularly in-teresting from the almost liquid manner in which theice seemed to hurl itself through the gateway of thegorge. Several photographs of the glacier did not Around Inglefield Gulf by Sledge 271 prove as effective as the actual view, owing to thedeep covering of snow, which hid the lines of demark-ation between the ice and the rocks. While we were making this reconnaissance
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