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 . white-toothed young men,the finest specimens of Eskimos I have seen. To myinexperienced eye, the fjord seemed utterly impass-able. From shore to shore it was filled with a con-fusion of huge flat-topped bergs, the narrow canonsand
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 . white-toothed young men,the finest specimens of Eskimos I have seen. To myinexperienced eye, the fjord seemed utterly impass-able. From shore to shore it was filled with a con-fusion of huge flat-topped bergs, the narrow canonsand tortuous lanes between them apparently packedsolid with berg fragments and pans of floe ice. But Reconnaissance of 1886 23 my pilots in the kayaks seemed to know by instinctwhere there was a passage, and on the second day wereached the head of the fjord without mishap. Thisvoyage up the long, narrow outlet of such an enormousand active glacier as Tossukatek, was one of inex-pressible grandeur. The air was continuously filledwith a succession of sharp reports, varying in loudnessfrom that of a percussion-cap to heavy artillery, whileevery few moments there would come a reverberatingpeal as of rolling thunder, and the swells from dis-rupting icebergs kept the whole mighty fleet surgingand swaying, and broke with intermittent roar againstthe rocks of the ESKIMO KAYAKERS TRAVELLING OVERLAND. My first view of the glacier showed it stretchingacross the head of the fjord, a giant rose-coloured dam,the majestic ice-blink rising blue above it. Late in the evening of August 3d, as the sun wasdropping behind the northern mountains, I started 24 Northward over the Great Ice from my little tent, which had been erected close tothe edge of the ice-cap, on my solitary reconnaissanceof the great ice across the base of Noursoak Pen-insula. Three days later I was back to the tent again,having crossed the ice to the edo-e of the GreatKariak Glacier, some twenty-five miles northward,where,
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