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 . cascades flow down the cliffs from the edge of theice-cap far above. Much of this time it was raining, and as we roundedthe point that ends this striking feature, which I calledthe Sculptured Cliffs of Karnah, and entered a littlec
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 . cascades flow down the cliffs from the edge of theice-cap far above. Much of this time it was raining, and as we roundedthe point that ends this striking feature, which I calledthe Sculptured Cliffs of Karnah, and entered a littlecove curving in to the face of a glacier, we were onlytoo delighted to see several deer crossing the slope,and have an excuse to land and stretch our stiff limbsin an effort to bag some of them. Our efforts, how-ever, were unsuccessful, and re-entering the boat, weleft this little bay, the water of which is red almost as Boat Voyage into Inglefield Gulf 393 freshly spilled blood, from the fine red sandstone siltbrought down by the sub-glacial streams of the twoglaciers which enter it, and pulled steadily along closeto the foot of the bluffs which form the western shoreof the northward-stretching fjord which Ikwa haddrawn for me during the winter, and into which Ihad looked down from the ice-cap a week into the farthest angle of the head of. WEST OR GNOME Bay. this fjord, the boat was beached on the shore of acove, the shallow water in which was a deep head of this cove was walled by a huge morainethrown up by a glacier, just the edge of which ap-peared over the top of the moraine. Beyond that,an isolated mountain of striking boldness and sharp-ness of outline jutted into the air apparently sometwo thousand feet, and then, from its base, the crys-tal wall of a great glacier stretched clear across the I 394 Northward over the Great Ice opposite side of the bay head. This glacier I named,in honour of my Ahna Mater. Bowdoin Glacier, andthe
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