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 . THE STARS AND STRIPES AT NAVY 4, Northernmost Greenland 349 had been brought with us for use In case of sickness,and passing it to Astriip to take a thimbleful, I fol-lowed suit, and then christened the great bay
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 . THE STARS AND STRIPES AT NAVY 4, Northernmost Greenland 349 had been brought with us for use In case of sickness,and passing it to Astriip to take a thimbleful, I fol-lowed suit, and then christened the great bay spread-ing its white expanse before us Independence Bay,in honour of the date, July 4th. The great glacier atour right I named Academy Glacier, in honour of theAcademy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia ; and theUnited States Navy was remembered in the nameNavy Cliff, which I gave to the giant cliff on whichwe stood. Then Astriip and I completed the cairn on NavyCliff. In the centre of this cairn I placed a tightlycorked bottle containing an account of the expedi-tion, its aims and objects, with portraits of all themembers, taken from the New York Sun of June 6,1891, and the following record : North Greenland Expedition of 1891-92, Robert , Civil Engineer, United States Navy,Commanding. July 4, 1892, latitude 8i 37 5 . Have this day, with one companion, Eivind Astriip, and eight•dogs, reached this po
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