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 . e-juice, andsugar. Our celebration of the national holiday wasregarded as a great success, with the exception of thepunch, the rum in this being none of the best, and alittle too much in evidence. The crows-nest was sent up soon af
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 . e-juice, andsugar. Our celebration of the national holiday wasregarded as a great success, with the exception of thepunch, the rum in this being none of the best, and alittle too much in evidence. The crows-nest was sent up soon after we enteredthe ice, and the chief business of life for days wasscanning the ice-fields from this lofty point of vantagefor some sign of a change. The white, unrelieved ex-panse of the pack soon ceased to be a novelty, andbecame very monotonous, while snow and fog con-tributed their part to the unpleasant situation. On the ninth I secured an observation which eaveour position as 74° 51 N. Lat, and an approximatelongitude of 60° W. Pools were forming on the surface of the floesand the ice was melting rapidly and growing more 64 Northward over the ** Great Ice rotten. The temperature averaged 31° F., the lowestbeing 28° F. Often the masts, spars, and rigging werecovered to windward with a thick coating of hoar-frost, giving a beautiful but wintry BESET IN THE MELVILLE-BAY PACK. Our imprisonment gave everyone a chance to stretchhimself upon the floes, but after a time some of theparty began to have forebodings of spending a win-ter in the Melville-Bay pack, not an alluring pros-pect, particularly as the commissary department hadnot been fitted out with that contingency in view. Brooklyn to McCormick Bay 65 At five on Saturday, July iith, without any ap-parent reason, the ice slackened, steam was hurriedlygotten up, and the Kite forged ahead and began aslow, laborious run that continued until about mid-night Sunday. Periods of ramming the ice alternated with int
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