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 . ORIENT CLIFFS OF JOSEPHINE PEARY ISLAND. island, we succeeded, by keeping close to the shore andtaking advantage of the gusts, in reaching the desiredspot. Here we camped for one wild night, expect-ing every moment to have the tent
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 . ORIENT CLIFFS OF JOSEPHINE PEARY ISLAND. island, we succeeded, by keeping close to the shore andtaking advantage of the gusts, in reaching the desiredspot. Here we camped for one wild night, expect-ing every moment to have the tent torn from overour heads, although it was weighted down with half aton of rocks ; with the spray which broke over abarrier of icebergs that had jammed against the island,flying over us ; and the gusts of the anoahtaksoah, asthe natives call these wild storms, howling down the 404 Northward over the Great Ice bay past us like an army of mad demons. In themorning the wind had subsided, yet never have I seensuch savage shapes and masses of wicked clouds,shifting and boiling in angry turmoil just above thesummits of the black cliffs above us. I did not care to risk taking the boat up the bay^so climbed alonor the shore with two of the Eskimosto a point where I could command its head, and there. - r~}:K , ERRATICS ON SUMMIT OF JOSEPHINE PEARY ISLAND. Mt. Lee and Inland Ice in Distance. see sweeping entirely across it, from vertical cliff tovertical cliff, the glistening face of the Leidy Glacier,and beyond that, the mighty stream of the glacieritself flowinor down between rao-o-ed nunataks from theheart of the Great Ice. The water was like ink aswe pulled across the mouth of Academy Bay towardslittle Ptarmigan Island, on which we had rested on thesledge journey of the spring, and I kept an anxiouseye out for more squalls. Just inside of the island Boat Voyage into Inglefield Gulf 405 was a small settlement of Eskimos, and landing to com-municate with them, I found them revelling in
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