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 . asses. For meteorological work I had a mercurial baro-meter, hydrometer, and several sets maximum andminimum thermometers; several special minimumthermometers, a number of ordinary mercurial ther-mometers, a deep-sea thermometer, a
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 . asses. For meteorological work I had a mercurial baro-meter, hydrometer, and several sets maximum andminimum thermometers; several special minimumthermometers, a number of ordinary mercurial ther-mometers, a deep-sea thermometer, and an anemo-meter. \ ^\ ?). M im jrM \\ i i W ^^k -11 w ^ ILj ILO ^ pi|^ffl^Jv,fl^^^H ?•?^^^^^. j-jy^ ? ^ *!f ,,#r« t . DECK SCENE AFTER HEAVY WEATHER. My photographic outfit consisted of Eastman kodaks and films, made expressly for me by theEastman Company. Miscellaneous items were navy-blue lights and sig-nals, rockets, burninor-alasses, flint and steel, pocketlamps, and many other articles too msignificant tomention, yet of importance in a region where not 52 Northward over the Great Ice even a piece of string or a paper of pins can beobtained. On June nth, the fifth day out from New York,we steamed into Sydney harbour, and while the crewspent a day fihing the coal-bunkers, the members ofthe two expeditions enjoyed to the utmost their last. MRS. PEARY AND GROUP OF DANISH-ESKIMO WOMEN AT GODHAVN. day in civilisation. By Friday evening, the 12th inst.,180 tons of coal from the Cape Breton mines hadbeen taken aboard, giving us over three hunderd tons Brooklyn to McCormick Bay 53 in the bunkers and hold and on deck. Then, with alast glance at the hills around the bay, only recentlyreclad with verdure by the awakening touch of spring,we put to sea, and headed northward across the Gulfof St. Lawrence for the Strait of Belle Isle. It waslightning sharply astern, and by noon next day thegrowing wind had risen to a gale, and life becamea burden to the poor sailors in our part
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