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 . JUMPING ONE KAYAK OVER ANOTHER. eventful and monotonous, head-winds holding us last, however, we passed the Delaware Break-water, and, a short distance below Philadelphia, sawthe tug chartered by our friends coming down the
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 . JUMPING ONE KAYAK OVER ANOTHER. eventful and monotonous, head-winds holding us last, however, we passed the Delaware Break-water, and, a short distance below Philadelphia, sawthe tug chartered by our friends coming down theriver to meet us. Soon they were on board, ourstory was told, and the North-Greenland Expeditionof 1891 and 1892 was at an end. An aftermath of this was the overflowing recep-tion at the Academy of Natural Sciences, when ournumerous friends and well-wishers in and aboutPhiladelphia had the opportunity of meeting the Search for Verhoeff—Homeward Voyage 423 returning members of the expedition, and discov-ered, much to the surprise of many, that men andeven women could hve for a year or so in Green-land, and return not only alive, but in entirely normalcondition. The elimination of the work of any member of myparty would have detracted very largely from the suc-cess of the THE HARBOUR PICTURESQUE IN NIGHT SHADOWS. To Dr. Cooks care may be attributed the almostcomplete exemption of the party from even themildest indispositions, and personally I owe much tohis professional skill, and unrufTfled patience and cool-ness in an emergency. In addition to his work in hisspecial ethnological field, in which he has obtained alarge mass of most valuable material concerning a 4-4 Northward over the Great Ice practically unstudied tribe, he was always helpful andan indefatigable worker. Verhoeff, besides contributing generously to theexpense of the expedition, was devoted to his meteoro-logical and tidal observations and made a completeand valuable series of both. Gibson, a natur
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