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 . on of ideas of pronounced future value, as odometer,sails, etc. The follozving deductions ^ : Paper read before National Academy of Sciences, at Washington, April 23,1886. ^ Bull. Am. Geog. Soc, No. 3, 1887, pp. 288, 289. 39 40 Nor
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 . on of ideas of pronounced future value, as odometer,sails, etc. The follozving deductions ^ : Paper read before National Academy of Sciences, at Washington, April 23,1886. ^ Bull. Am. Geog. Soc, No. 3, 1887, pp. 288, 289. 39 40 Northward over the Great Ice Attacks npoji the Inland Ice sJwuld be made at a point as fa? above level of sea aspossible, and where the pres-ence of large and rapidlydischarging glaciers indi-cates a rapid ascent to highelevation in close proximityto coast. Party should be small andthoroughly accustomed tosnoiv-shoes and ski. Surface of Inland Iceoffers imperial highway toEast Coast, and, in case theice-cap is coextensive withthe land, to the northernterminus of Greenland. Proposal of the followingprophetic routes : From base of NoursoakPeninsula to head of FranzJoseph Fjord, and return.(A) From Whale Sound tonorthern terminus of Green-land or intersection of ice-cap zvith East Coast. {E)This route the key to theGreenland Problem. From Disco Bay to CapeDan: {D). I ? ^oreweir This route actually covered byme in 1892. ^ This route utilised by Nansen in1888. {E) PART II. NORTH GREENLAND EXPEDITION OF 189I-1892. CHAPTER I. BROOKLYN TO McCORMICK BAY. Starting from Brooklyn—East River Steamboats Whistle theirAdieus—My Heavy-Laden Barkentine—Purposes of the North Green-land Expedition—Its Personnel and Equipment—Our Companions onTHE Voyage—Stopped by Ice in the Strait of Belle Isle—GreenlandsGrand Mountains Come into View—Our First Field Day in the ArcticRegions—A Panoramic Survey of Mountains, Fjords, Glaciers, Ice-bergs, and Sea—Caught in the Ice of Melville Bay—T
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