. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. It^ 94 Northward over the "Great Ice" to put it out of its misery. Wc also killed a sj^ood many hurj.!^omaster L,adls. auks, and ot
. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. It^ 94 Northward over the "Great Ice" to put it out of its misery. Wc also killed a sj^ood many hurj.!^omaster L,adls. auks, and other hirds near the camp. Late in the. mon th. we sa\v th e sun set, a phenomenon that had not occurred before since we reached the arctic reL,n*ons. On the nii^ht of August 29th, a \Ujht was needed for the first time and the watch burned candles for several hours. The loULi^ summer day was at an end, but winter was not yet upon us. Monday, AuL(ust3 i st, dawned clear and calm, and I started Astriip with his ski for a twen- ty-four-hour reconnais- sance of the Inland Ice, east of McCormick Bay. He returned at mid- nig-ht after a sixteen- hour absence. He had travelled an estimated distance of seve nteen miles, but had not rounded the head of the bay. The greatest altitude he attained was 2645 feet and the lowest temperature was+25° F. He reported that the travelling on the Inland Ice, as far as he was able to see it, was perfection. He saw no crevasses, rivers, or ponds. His observations, how- ever, tended to show that our start for the spring sledginif on the Inland Ice niust be made from the north-east side of the bay, as a deep valley seemed to cut through from the valley at the head of McCor- mick Bay southward to Whale Sound. GREENLAND FALCON. i ' c,.,-,_» - „ .•>.-rt^"J'*\TXS3I3. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not
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