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 . tion of the storm back to my tent. This solitaryexperience in the silence and desolation and infiniteexpanse of the great ice made a deep impressionupon me. Returning to Kekertak, I climbed the ragged peakof Nayat on the north side
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 . tion of the storm back to my tent. This solitaryexperience in the silence and desolation and infiniteexpanse of the great ice made a deep impressionupon me. Returning to Kekertak, I climbed the ragged peakof Nayat on the north side of the fjord, where I hada magnificent view of the entire north-eastern sectionof Disco Bay. Beneath the eye of an observer onthe summit of Nayat, the whole of Tossukatek Fjord,with its ramifications into Ikaresak Sound, and thegreat glacier at its head, lies like a map, and theapparently level horizon of the ice-cap stretches fromnorth-east to south-east. Then from Kekertak I went to the famous fossilbeds of Atanekerdluk. Here I found fragments oftrees, black petrifactions with the grain of the woodand the texture of the bark showing clearly. Piecesof sandstone split readily into sheets, between whichwere to be seen sharp, clear impressions of large net-veined leaves, every tiniest veinlet and minute ser-ration of the edges distinct as the lines of a steel. 26 Northward over the Great Ice engraving- ; long, slender parallel-veined leaves andexquisite feathery ferns. To one who appreciatesthe strange story of these leaf impressions, yet hasnot the circumscribed microscopic vision of thespecialist, these fossils give strange sensations. Oneholds in his hand the new-cut grey pages of a book
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