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 . thebest, but we made heruseful repairing gar-ments, and other miscel-laneous work; and hergarrulity seemed to helpbeguile the hours of la-bour. Altogether I gaveemployment to sevenseamstresses, includingIkwas wife Mane, andKessuhs
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 . thebest, but we made heruseful repairing gar-ments, and other miscel-laneous work; and hergarrulity seemed to helpbeguile the hours of la-bour. Altogether I gaveemployment to sevenseamstresses, includingIkwas wife Mane, andKessuhs wife of thesame name, who, how-ever, was with us onlya short time. The wo-men had never heard of an eight-hour law, and cheer-fully acquiesced when our necessities required themto sew from ten to twelve hours a day and even was the busiest winter they had ever spent, for, be-sides our sewing, they had the work of their own house-holds to perform. Patches were needed on the gar-ments of their husbands and little ones, and, thoughtheir culinary methods were not elaborate, food had tobe prepared. Megipsu, The Daisy, however, was mymost regular and constant seamstress, and as she waswith us nearly all the time, the larger part of the sew-ing was done by her. My photographic work was confined during thedarkness almost wholly to ethnological subjects. As. SAIREY GAMP. 174 Northward over the Great Ice soon as my Innuit friends began to come to us, we setabout taking measurements and photographs of Cook, who had special charge of the ethnologicalresearches, made anthropometrical measurements, dur-
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