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 . WEST OR GNOME Bay. this fjord, the boat was beached on the shore of acove, the shallow water in which was a deep head of this cove was walled by a huge morainethrown up by a glacier, just the edge of which a
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 . WEST OR GNOME Bay. this fjord, the boat was beached on the shore of acove, the shallow water in which was a deep head of this cove was walled by a huge morainethrown up by a glacier, just the edge of which ap-peared over the top of the moraine. Beyond that,an isolated mountain of striking boldness and sharp-ness of outline jutted into the air apparently sometwo thousand feet, and then, from its base, the crys-tal wall of a great glacier stretched clear across the I 394 Northward over the Great Ice opposite side of the bay head. This glacier I named,in honour of my Ahna Mater. Bowdoin Glacier, andthe bay I called Bowdoin Bay. The cove was evi-dently the favourite rendezvous, or feeding-ground,of the kahkoktah, or white whales, which abound inthis region. All the time during our stay at thiscamp their puffing could be heard, and, in conse-quence, I named the cove Kahkoktah Cove. While. VIEW AT HEAD OF BOW^DOIN BAY. Bowdoin Glacier in Distance. at this camp, one of my hunters went up the bluffsand obtained two fine deer, and from this camp, also,VerhoefT left us on his proposed trip across the gla-cier, and so on around to Red Cliff. It was my lastsight of the unfortunate man. Next noon, in a continuance of rainy weather, Ipushed through the area of glacier debris which filledthe centre of the bay, into its extreme north-easterncorner, to a little cove from which a tiny valley ran Boat Voyage into Inglefield Gulf 395 up under the shadow of a vertical-faced was the very place down into which I had looked, p. ? ?^ _,_ »*V£1mJ|^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^|^^^^^^^^H ^ EAST GLACIER.
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