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 . glimpseof the sun, which thus far we had not had since weleft Red Cliff, I started for the summit of the islandimmediately after breakfast, in the hopes of gettingan observation and a round of angles. Incidentally,also, I was desir


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 . glimpseof the sun, which thus far we had not had since weleft Red Cliff, I started for the summit of the islandimmediately after breakfast, in the hopes of gettingan observation and a round of angles. Incidentally,also, I was desirous of seeing the deer which myhunter had killed. Sure enough, I found them with-in a distance of a hundred yards of each other, wherehe had crept upon them and shot them while sleep-ing,—four magnificent bucks. Boat Voyage into Inglefield Gulf 401 While the view from the south end of this islandwas almost all water, from this northern or inner endthe view was entirely ice. Here the frozen waves ofthe great glaciers beat against the foot of the islandcliffs. Some of the ice-waves of one of these glaciers—which I named in honour of that splendid big fellow,Melville—although frozen and immutable as marble,have all the life and action of Niagara Rapids, Onthe other side of the island, the lower portion of theTracy Glacier sweeps away towards the Smithson. OF THE MELVILLE GLACIER. Mountains, cut by parallel lines of huge crevasseswhich stretch away mile after mile into the distance,until they become simply waving lines, faint yet defi-nite as those from a gravers tool The orient cliffsof this island are a mass of rich warm colour. Scat-tered over its summit are numerous great erratics,brought here at a time when the elaciers which nowflowed hundreds of feet below me swept, perhaps,without a ripple over the highest peak. Descending to the camp, I found my Eskimos ina state of excitement, a school of kahlillowah, or nar- 402 Northward over the Great Ice whal, having-


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