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 . d never saw them again. ConsequentlyI was keenly alive to every sound from my team teth-ered out on the ice-foot, and frequently found excusesto go outside and see that the dogs were all right. When the sun rose above the cliffs fr
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 . d never saw them again. ConsequentlyI was keenly alive to every sound from my team teth-ered out on the ice-foot, and frequently found excusesto go outside and see that the dogs were all right. When the sun rose above the cliffs from his shortmidnight dip, Whale Sound, between us and Netiu-lume, on the mainland across the Sound, was a whirl-ing mass of golden spray. The flying snow of the in-terior ice-cap swept down over the great glaciers at thehead of Inglefield Gulf, then through Whale Sound, Around Inglefield Gulf by Sledge 255 and passed us, to be deposited at last out in the openNorth Water. Even the Eskimos shook their headsdubiously about going out in this blinding drift, andas we were not obliged to hurry, I waited at this villageuntil ten , when the wind subsided, and we startedwestward along the south shore of NorthumberlandIsland, for the permanent settlement of Keate, aboutfive miles distant. We were accompanied on thismarch by every man, woman, and child in the snow. KEATE PEOPLE. village that was able to walk, and as we moved alongwith the men beside or close behind our sledge, thewomen behind them, and the old men and childrenstraggling along in the rear, I could think of nothingbut a circus being escorted out of a country town byits admirers. At Keate we found Ahngodoblaho, or the dogman, as we called him, because we had first known himas the proud possessor of three magnificent Eskimo 256 Northward over the Great Ice dogs, trained to fight the polar bear, quick and power-ful as wolves, yet apparently willing to be also we found Mahotia, or the Comedian, ashe had been
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