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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 . I ? ^oreweir This route actually covered byme in 1892. ^ This route utilised by Nansen in1888. {E) PART II. NORTH GREENLAND EXPEDITION OF 189I-1892. CHAPTER I. BROOKLYN TO McCORMICK BAY. Starting from Brooklyn—East River Steamboats
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 . I ? ^oreweir This route actually covered byme in 1892. ^ This route utilised by Nansen in1888. {E) PART II. NORTH GREENLAND EXPEDITION OF 189I-1892. CHAPTER I. BROOKLYN TO McCORMICK BAY. Starting from Brooklyn—East River Steamboats Whistle theirAdieus—My Heavy-Laden Barkentine—Purposes of the North Green-land Expedition—Its Personnel and Equipment—Our Companions onTHE Voyage—Stopped by Ice in the Strait of Belle Isle—GreenlandsGrand Mountains Come into View—Our First Field Day in the ArcticRegions—A Panoramic Survey of Mountains, Fjords, Glaciers, Ice-bergs, and Sea—Caught in the Ice of Melville Bay—Three WeeksBattling with the Pack—A Broken Leg—The North Water Reachedat Last—We Meet the Arctic Highlanders—The Site Selected forour North Greenland ASTRUP. HENSON. CHAPTER I. BROOKLYN TO McCORMICK BAY.
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjecteskimos, bookyear1898