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 . sence of ten hours. Again we resisted the seductive luxury of a nativeigloo, and spread our bags upon the bay ice on the TAHWANA AND HIS FAMILY. sunny side of the ice-foot; but, as it was our first, Ithink it will be our last selec
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 . sence of ten hours. Again we resisted the seductive luxury of a nativeigloo, and spread our bags upon the bay ice on the TAHWANA AND HIS FAMILY. sunny side of the ice-foot; but, as it was our first, Ithink it will be our last selection of such a place for acamp. After sleeping I know not how long, I wasawakened by unpleasant sensations, and found mysleeping-bag full of water, and the site of our camptransformed into a pool of semi-liquid slush, causedby the overflow of the rising tide through a crack inthe ice-foot near us. Jumping out of my bag with 268 Northward over the Great Ice the utmost celerity, I found that Mrs. Pearys headand the mouth of her bag were just on the shore ofthe httle pond, and the water had evidently as yetneither reached the mouth of her bag nor soakedthrough the bag itself, for she was still calmly sleep-ing. Knowing that any movement on her part wouldbe likely to let the water into her bag, I seized her,bag and all, and stood her on end, in the same irrever-. FACE OF HURLBUT GLACIER. ent manner that a miller ends up a bag of meal;then, before she was fairly awake, she was carried outof the water, and deposited upon the dry snow. This experience was a very emphatic illustrationof the serious discomfort and inconvenience to Arctictravellers resulting from getting their equipment sleeping-bag and some few articles of clothingthat did not escape the inundation were not thoroughly Around Inglefield Gulf by Sledge. 269 dried until after we reached Red Cliff, three days-later. While Mrs. Peary, now thoroughly awakened,beat and scraped as much of the frozen slush fromour furs as
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