. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. !. I iH i 318 Northward over the " (ireat Ice" but, land appcarinir to the north-west, north, and north- east soon after startin^j^
. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. !. I iH i 318 Northward over the " (ireat Ice" but, land appcarinir to the north-west, north, and north- east soon after startin^j^, I chanjj^ed the course to east true. The entrance to a fjord with precipitous black shores lay north north-west 1 true from us. As we advanced I to the east, the clouds increased in density and a liuht driviuLj snow came up from the south- west, shroudiuL^ the ice with that shadowless lij^dit which makes even the snow beneath one's feet invisible. I kept on, however, still keepini^ my course by the wind, until the very piM"ce|)tible descent warned me from past experi- ences to iKvlt and wait for clearer weather. This I did after a march of ten miles. When the snow ceased several hours later, the land loomed up close ahead of us, with the de- pression of the fjord beyond, and had I continued blintUy throu^rh the fo<'- 1 should have brouo^ht up rioht in the head of another ^rreat Macier. Our next march to the south-east was a short one, only ten miles, and nearly parallel with the land. Dark-brown and red cliffs looked down into a <i^rand vertical-walled caiion reachino^ up towards our camp and everywhere north-west, north, and east, black and dark-red precipices,deep valleys, mountains capped with cloud-shadowed domes of ice, stretched away in a wild jxinorama, upon which no human eyes had. SETTING THE Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of th
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