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 . M A P O F INDEPENDENCE BAY EAST COAST OF GREELNUAND July H* iS^z Navy OBSERVATION spotonNavy CliffLat. 81* 37 5 N. LONG. °5 W. I N N D MAP OF INDEPENDENCE BAY.(Used through the courtesy of the American Geograp
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 . M A P O F INDEPENDENCE BAY EAST COAST OF GREELNUAND July H* iS^z Navy OBSERVATION spotonNavy CliffLat. 81* 37 5 N. LONG. °5 W. I N N D MAP OF INDEPENDENCE BAY.(Used through the courtesy of the American Geographical Society, New York.) 354 Northward over the Great Ice it may appear, we had had a surfeit of our fresh food ;and as we picked our way over the tiresome boulderfragments, on our journey back to Moraine Camp,Astriip reiterated that he wished we were back to thecamp, for he wanted a piece of pemmican. That route of ours, from Moraine Camp to NavyChff and back again, was a httle the worst travelhngwe found in Greenland. We were two days gettingback to the camp, and when we reached it, every dogin the team, except old veteran Lion and my favour-ite Pau (now entirely recovered), had cut and wornhis feet on the sharp rocks until they were CHAPTER XIII. EIGHT THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE SEA. Getting Ready for the Homeward March—A Steady Climb to theTop of Greenland—Prisoned in a Snow Dug-Out Sixty Hours by theBiggest Storm of the Series—Groping our Way for Two Weeksthrough Dense Fogs that Crown the Summit Plateau—We Find itVERY Hard to Keep the Course—The Wind our Sole Reliance—Las-situde and Despondency Due to the Dripping Mist—We Abandon aSledge and Throw away Everything we can Spare—Once more inTHE Realm of Sunshine—^Making Thirty to Forty Miles a Day on theHome-Stretch—Meeting our Friends on the Inland Ice—WelcomedBACK TO Red Cliff.
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