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 . re, and two men, came infrom a little north of Cape York. They said therehad been much wind there during the winter. Theprevailing wind at Cape York had been from thesouth, but all along the north coast the wind hadcome from off th
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 . re, and two men, came infrom a little north of Cape York. They said therehad been much wind there during the winter. Theprevailing wind at Cape York had been from thesouth, but all along the north coast the wind hadcome from off the shore. There had not been muchsnow, nor had it been very cold. Off Akpani (Saun-ders Island) there was open water and the ice was of the men put his hands about fifteen inches 2.^6 Northward over the Great Ice apart, to show the thickness of the ice. During theforenoon a very affectionate couple came in on foot,the man with an old rifle with the stamp, Tower,1868, on it. I was up till after midnight, takingphotographs of the new subjects. On Tuesday, April 5th, I sent Gibson with Kessuhand his five dogs, to take Inland-Ice supplies to thehead of the bay, and then go to Five-Glacier Valley,to hunt deer for several days. I hired three fine dogsfor the Inland-Ice trip, and immediately started withthem for the east end of Herbert Island, partly to get. THE FIRST LOAD FOR THE ICE-CAP. some blubber cached there, for Megipsu and her fam-ily, and partly to try the dogs. Astriip and Annowkahaccompanied me, and I took my long sledge. We leftRed cliff House at 10:15 , passed Cape Cleveland ateleven oclock, and reached the east end of Herbert Isl-and at three There we found several ruined stoneigloos, two of which had been fixed up and made habit-able. They were built of large red, sandstone extreme east end of Herbert Island is a fine boldcliff of dark red sandstone, with a cap one hundred Preparing for the Ice-Cap Campaign 237 to one hundred and fifty feet t
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