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 . RESTING GROUPS. thorough and minute was the search that, on the way,we found a handkerchief and a knife, which had beendropped by the Five-Glacier-Valley hunting-party theprevious October. No signs of Verhoeff were seen,however, th
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 . RESTING GROUPS. thorough and minute was the search that, on the way,we found a handkerchief and a knife, which had beendropped by the Five-Glacier-Valley hunting-party theprevious October. No signs of Verhoeff were seen,however, though we swept the valley until we cameout on the crest of the bluff beyond its head, lookingdown into Robertson Bay. Returning to McCormick Bay on the 21st, I foundthe Kite anchored off the mouth of the valley. Notrace of Verhoeff had been found in Robertson detailed four or five of the best Eskimos to Gibson, Search for Verhoeff—Homeward Voyage 4^3 and instructed him to take several days suppHes andproceed up the valley again and scour the regionnorth and west of it, clear up to the edge of the greatglacier which flows down into the head of RobertsonBay, then to follow down the side of the glacier tothe bay itself. With the rest of the Eskimos andmy whale-boat, I started along the shore of McCor-mick Bay, to carefully examine every foot of it, clear. MRS. PEARY DISTRIBUTING HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS. round into the head of Robertson Bay, where I wouldeffect a junction with Gibson. The Kite, later on,was to follow me into Robertson Bay. The mostcareful examination of the shore discovered not theslightest trace of Verhoeff. Reaching the head ofthe bay, and communicating with Gibson, who hadcome down the side of the glacier, I found that thenatives had discovered traces of the missing man,— 414 Northward over the Great Ice footprints along the side of the glacier. Picking theseup, we immediately followed them up on to the glacieritself, and for a little distance on its surface
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