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 . CAPE YORK. twenty-one hundred in an air-line almost due north,and is situated between the extreme meridians of NewYork City and Halifax. Lying as It does six hundredmiles within the Arctic Circle, half-way between theconfines and t
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 . CAPE YORK. twenty-one hundred in an air-line almost due north,and is situated between the extreme meridians of NewYork City and Halifax. Lying as It does six hundredmiles within the Arctic Circle, half-way between theconfines and the heart of the great polar night, theArctic Circle and the Pole, its every feature and con-dition is so different from what we are accustomed to,that I have no doubt many an intelligent reader willhave difihculty in forming a correct conception of thecountry. Appendix 445 Though only two hundred and thirty-five miles inlength from north to south, and a little over one hun-. THE CRIMSON CLIFFS. dred miles wide, conditions are so different and peculiarin this region of rapidly assembling meridians, that the
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