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 . oreground. Soon after midnight the snow surface became firmand coarsely granular with occasional small patchesof snow of marble-like fineness and whiteness, sou-venirs of the last storm. Later we encountered areas of glazed snow, o
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 . oreground. Soon after midnight the snow surface became firmand coarsely granular with occasional small patchesof snow of marble-like fineness and whiteness, sou-venirs of the last storm. Later we encountered areas of glazed snow, of suchhardness that even the brads in our sandals and thesteel shoes of the sledges scarcely left a trace. Thefierce morning gale brought us to a standstill 4100feet above the sea, the entire surface of the ice-blink, as far as we could see, glazed and shining Reconnaissance of 1886 13 beneath the morning sun, with a bhnding brilHancyimpossible to describe. Taught by our experience at previous camps, thatit was impossible to sleep exposed to the powerfulglare of the sun and the searching sweep of the wind,and having at this camp suitable material, we built arougfh hut, cuttinor blocks of snow with a lone, nar-row-bladed saw, and building a low wall around threesides of a rectangle, over which we spread a rubberblanket and weig-hted it down with the BIVOUAC ON THE ICE-CAP. During the next nine days we pushed on throughvarious experiences, usually in the teeth of a head-wind. Sometimes far up the most delicate cirrusclouds hung motionless in the blue, again black banksof cumuli would sweep up above the horizon. Once ortwice we were enveloped in dense fog, which coatedeverything with tiny, milk-white crystals of ice, andin one march a brilliant parhelion filled the north- 14 Northward over the Great Ice eastern sky with rainbow hues and ehcited answeringflashes of colour from the ghttering snow-field. After eettinor above an altitude of six thousandfeet, the temperature
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