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 . gs, a furious andsudden squall swept down the valley, and catchingthe boat drove her several yards away from the shore,dragging her stone anchor after her. As luck wouldhave it, also, Ikwas kayak had been tied to the boat,and it, t
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 . gs, a furious andsudden squall swept down the valley, and catchingthe boat drove her several yards away from the shore,dragging her stone anchor after her. As luck wouldhave it, also, Ikwas kayak had been tied to the boat,and it, too, was beyond our reach. The masts havingbeen stepped by the boys, as I feared this operationwould be rather difficult for Mrs. Peary and Ikwa,the boat offered considerable surface to the wind, andeach succeeding gust, sweeping down the valley with 134 Northward over the Great Ice the fury that only arctic squalls from the ice-cap canattain, was gradually driving the boat, anchor and all,farther and farther from shore. If the boat passedacross the narrow lagoon between the shore and thedyke of the glacier moraine, I knew her anchor wouldhang like a plummet at the end of the painter, andthe boat, with nothing to hold her, would disappearthrough the driving snow, to be dashed to pieces onthe rocks of the northern shore of the bay, or drivenout into PACKING SUPPLIES TO THE ICE-CAP, The prospect was not a pleasant one, as the boathad on board everything, and the fifteen-mile journeyto Red Cliff House along the rocky shore would havebeen a work of days for me in my crippled the water in the lagoon was now only per-haps waist-deep, Ikwa, with the well-known Eskimo Boat and Sledge Trips 135 dislike for this element, refused to go into it, but in-stead, endeavoured, with his rawhide walrus line, tolasso the boat and thus drag her in. Unfortunatelythe distance was too great, and cast after cast of theline was made, without success. The boat all this timew
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