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 . r returning his offi-cial call, accompanied by Professor Heilprinand , I got under way, leaving behind the mostnortherly town on the globe. The Kite steamed oversummer seas, past the numerous red-brown islandsthat guard 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 . r returning his offi-cial call, accompanied by Professor Heilprinand , I got under way, leaving behind the mostnortherly town on the globe. The Kite steamed oversummer seas, past the numerous red-brown islandsthat guard this arctic coast. Through every depres-sion in the mountains and from every fjord head, themarble surface of the Inland Ice looked down upon us,the crevasses in the lower portions visible at timeswith the naked eye. Past many giant mile-stonesby which the whalers measure their advance in theirannual battles with the ice-floes, we steamed withoutseeing a bit of ice, and at six oclock in the morningreached the Duck Islands, a well-known rendezvousand lookout for the whalers while waiting for the icebarriers of Melville Bay to open for them. At theseislands we stopped till afternoon, laying in a supply Brooklyn to McCormick Bay . 6i of eider-ducks which breed here in thousands. Un-fortunately we were too late to get eggs, they beingtoo far advanced to be UPERNAVIK. Leaving the islands, we shaped our course direct forCape York, with the most sanguine expectation ofmaking a speedy passage across Melville Bay, and per-haps reaching Whale Sound on the 4th of July, the dayon which famous old Baffm cast anchor in the Soundover 275 years ago. Our expectations, however, weredoomed to speedy disappointment. Sixteen milesnorth of the Duck Islands, we met the dreaded Mel-ville-Bay pack, and after running along its edge closeto the Devils Thumb, and then back again to thewestward, in search of a good opening, the Kite, at7:30 , on July 2d, stuck her sturdy little nose intothe pack
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