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 . WOMAN AND CHILD. CHAPTER VIII. PREPARING FOR THE ICE-CAP A FTER lunch, on Fri-day, February19th, Astrijp andDr. Cook started off tobuild some cairns on thebrow of the bluffs fromCape Cleveland to Three-Mile Valley. Theyt
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 . WOMAN AND CHILD. CHAPTER VIII. PREPARING FOR THE ICE-CAP A FTER lunch, on Fri-day, February19th, Astrijp andDr. Cook started off tobuild some cairns on thebrow of the bluffs fromCape Cleveland to Three-Mile Valley. Theythought they would makethe ascent at Cape Cleve-land and started in thatdirection. Old Arrotok-soah and his wife left us at eight for Netiulume,and a little later, Ikwa started with his sledge and myone remaining Eskimo dog. This day, for the firsttime, we ate our lunch by daylight, the lamps beingput out from one until two While we were at dinner, Ikwa came back and saidthat in passing Cape Cleveland he had heard a smallsnow-slide. I thought nothing of this at the time,but about nine Arrotoksoah and his wife returned,having found the travelling over the Whale-Soundice too rough for them. Old Sairey Gamp said shehad heard Dr. Cook shouting and Jack barking asthey were passing Cape Cleveland. I did not likethe looks of this, and immediately told Gibson to get Northward over the Great Ice ready to go down to the
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