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 . THE PROFESSOR. Search for Verhoeff—Homeward Voyage 4^9 with which the locahty is rich, while Mrs. Peary andmyseh wandered hke children out of school up thegrassy and mossy ravines and across the warm-huedslopes. All were satisfied
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 . THE PROFESSOR. Search for Verhoeff—Homeward Voyage 4^9 with which the locahty is rich, while Mrs. Peary andmyseh wandered hke children out of school up thegrassy and mossy ravines and across the warm-huedslopes. All were satisfied with the call here—theProfessor and his party with their fossils, Mrs. Pearyand myself with our run ashore. A brief stop was made at Godhavn, to tell our. GODHAAB. friends there of our fortunes and successes, then theKite steamed away for the other Greenland capital,Godhaab of the Southern Inspectorate. This placeseemed quite like a metropolis as compared with God-havn. It has quite a pretentious chapel, and a shortdistance away is the long, low building of the oldMoravian Mission establishment. We made manypleasant acquaintances here, among them white-haired 420 Northward over the Great Ice Inspector Fencker and his wife, with their pleasant-faced young daughter, who, in her seventeen years ofHfe, has never been out of Greenland. While here,too, some of the kayakers of the place treated us toan exhibition of the characteristic aquatic feats ofthese South-Greenland amphibious hunters,—jump-ing one canoe over the other, turning somersault
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