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 . drivento our burrow in the snow by the severest storm wehad experienced since we left the basin of HumboldtGlacier. When we had completed about half of this march,Pollux, one of the dogs I had purchased of Ahngo-doblaho, fell down
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 . drivento our burrow in the snow by the severest storm wehad experienced since we left the basin of HumboldtGlacier. When we had completed about half of this march,Pollux, one of the dogs I had purchased of Ahngo-doblaho, fell down exhausted and could haul no land trip had evidently been too much for tied him behind the sledge, and he walked for atime and then lay down, and we put him on the sledgetill we reached camp, where we killed the poor fellowand added him to our dog-commissary stores. Mean-time the barometer indications pointed to a stormbrewing. In the last few hours of our march, a heavyfrost-bank enveloped us, and I found it affected my Eight Thousand Feet above the Sea 3^3 eyes more unfavourably than the brightest had no more than buih our snow sheher, whenthe storm burst upon us in all its fury. At an elevation nearly two thousand feet higher thanthe summit of Mt. Washington, we were prisoners onthe Inland Ice. For forty-eight hours, until three. THE KITCHEN. oclock on the morning of July 14th, there was not amoments cessation in the howling storm that sweptwith resistless fury down the slope towards the wildeast coast. The trench in which we lay in the snowwas two feet high, three feet wide, and seven feet long,and was covered with a cotton roof for half its length. 364 Northward over the Great Ice We spent sixty hours in this snug abode, and I wasmore comfortable throughout the storm than in anyI had met since coming upon the Inland Ice. Wewere warm and dry through it all, and, in spite of thedrift that had piled up over us, we were able tochange our position when
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