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 . 26 Northward over the Great Ice engraving- ; long, slender parallel-veined leaves andexquisite feathery ferns. To one who appreciatesthe strange story of these leaf impressions, yet hasnot the circumscribed microscopic vision of 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 . 26 Northward over the Great Ice engraving- ; long, slender parallel-veined leaves andexquisite feathery ferns. To one who appreciatesthe strange story of these leaf impressions, yet hasnot the circumscribed microscopic vision of thespecialist, these fossils give strange sensations. Oneholds in his hand the new-cut grey pages of a book. HARBOUR OF ATANEKERDLUK. that went to press countless ages ago, with fresh greenleaves scattered through it, leaves that seem familiar tous, that remind us of the beech, the magnolia, and theoak, leaves such as may be found in the sun-fleckedaisles of any of our June forests ; yet looking overthe top of the page we see below a fleet of huge ice-bergs, and beyond the narrow channel the eternalice-dome of Disco Island, cresting the cliffs andreaching pendent glacier arms down their sides. I Reconnaissance of 1886 27 descended the slope with a strange, unreal feeling, halfexpecting that if I turned and looked up the gorge Ishould see a green, leaf-carpeted forest, rustling andshimmering in the sunlight. Yet it is all a part ofthis land of startling contrasts, this land of midnio^htsun and noonday night, of tropical skies and perennialsnow, of mountains half hidden beneath the eternalice-caps, yet still tinged with the deep glow of ancientvolcanic fires.
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