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 . would not face it, and soI made no attempt to start. The last twelve hoursof our enforced idleness dragged very slowly, butfinally we made preparations to start, a more formid-able task than might be supposed. It took Astriip forty
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 . would not face it, and soI made no attempt to start. The last twelve hoursof our enforced idleness dragged very slowly, butfinally we made preparations to start, a more formid-able task than might be supposed. It took Astriip forty-five minutes of continuouslabour to straighten out the frozen tangle of the traces,tied by the incessant restlessness of the dogs into aknot that would have put a dozen Gordians to was engaged the same length of time in diggingout the sledges. I found, to my dismay, while looking over thestores, that two cans of pemmican had been doubtless was the result of exposure to the heatof the sun during the few days that the sledges layon the rocks at Moraine Camp. With much anxiety,I carefully examined the other tins, and I thought I Eio^ht Thousand Feet above the Sea 365 fe had reason to believe that still other cans had be-come unfit for food. It was with no pleasurable feeling, therefore, thatwe resumed the march. The loss of one of my best. POLLUX. •dogs and the spoiling of some of my pemmicanloomed up before me as suggestive of mountains oftrouble to come. The long inactivity in our snowburrow for sixty hours had slightly impaired mydigestion, and the prospect of being reduced to eat o 66 Northward over the Great Ice dog-meat, and of having to haul a sledge for somehundreds of miles, with no dogs to help us in thetraces, seemed to stare me in the face. To crownall, the clouds enwrapped us as we started, and thedismal, hopeless weather gave poignancy to my de-spondency. After lunch, I sent Astrup ahead to setthe course, and I drove the dogs myself in order t
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