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 . DOWN THE LAST SLOPE. to Astriip, The boys are out looking for us. Atthat moment, however, the members of the otherparty evidently saw us, and a faint cheer came acrossthe white waste to our ears. The objects separated,and I could s
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 . DOWN THE LAST SLOPE. to Astriip, The boys are out looking for us. Atthat moment, however, the members of the otherparty evidently saw us, and a faint cheer came acrossthe white waste to our ears. The objects separated,and I could see there were seven or eight in I knew there was a ship in the bay. We hur-ried rapidly down the slope, eager once more for thesight of familiar faces. The other party at the sametime descended from the eminence on which they had Eie^ht Thousand Feet above the Sea 381 ^t> been, and in a very short time I grasped ProfessorHeilprins hand, and greeted the other members ofhis party, who were struggHng eagerly through thedeep, heavy snow. Never was meeting more effective or unique. Onemonth to a day before, the Kite, with Professor Heil-prin on board, turned her prow northward from theharbour of St. Johns, and ever since had been steamingnorthward through the blue waves. One month to a. THE KITE FLOATING SNUGLY AT ANCHOR. day before, Astrup and myself turned our faces south-ward from Musk-Ox Valley on the strange northernshore, and ever since had been marching southwardover the frozen waves of the ice-cap. Now we hadmet on this great ice desert, almost out of sight ofland, in the brilliant light of the midnight sun, andthe courses that each party was taking were such thathad we been blindfolded we should have run into eachothers arms. Professor Heilprin and his party turned back im-mediately, and, chatting with various members of theparty, the time flew rapidly as we covered the tenmiles between us and the bay. About two oclockin the morning- I stood again on the crest o
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