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 . e ships themselves stood out under canvas (whal-ers never using their propellers when in the vicinityof whales), and reached back and forth off the mouthof the fjord. While here ten bears were killed bythe various ships, andone day
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 . e ships themselves stood out under canvas (whal-ers never using their propellers when in the vicinityof whales), and reached back and forth off the mouthof the fjord. While here ten bears were killed bythe various ships, andone day the Eagle sboats came in withthe skins of twowhich they had har-pooned in the had taken theunited efforts of threeboats crews to keepone of these power-ful brutes from climb-ing: into the boat andwreakinof veno^eancefor the murderousthrust of the the last day ofSeptember we steamed south to Bute Island onthe south side of the Clyde. The coast from Eg-linton to the Clyde looks like the side of a long, deeprailway cut. The next afternoon we made KaterHead (of the whalers—Cape Raper of the charts).Here we found the Polynia, Terra Aova, and Esqui-maux, and along this coast from Kater Head to CapeKater we put in ten days. During this time it wassnowing almost constantly, and young ice formedwherever the lee of a projecting point, or stream of. CLIFF VIEW AT ATANEKERDLUK. 30 Northward over the Great Ice old ice, made cahii water. One forenoon the barom-eter dropped rapidly, and in the afternoon the snowceased, the clouds lifted, and a tremendous swellcame rolling in from the south-east. Not a breath ofwind disturbed the surface as the long, lazy swells,smoothed by the pressure of the ice through whichthey had passed, came slipping noiselessly in, lift-ing and dropping the huge bergs as if they were butcorks, and then, with clouds of dark smoke streamingfrom their crests and with great cakes of blue iceborne upon their shoulders, dashed up the longshoal south-west
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