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 BRONZE SPHINX. 400 Northward over the Great Ice Pulling along the shore of the island, into an angleformed by the cliffs of the island on one side, and thecliffs of a glacier on the other, I landed, though in op-position to the
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 BRONZE SPHINX. 400 Northward over the Great Ice Pulling along the shore of the island, into an angleformed by the cliffs of the island on one side, and thecliffs of a glacier on the other, I landed, though in op-position to the judgment of my natives, who had theirfears in regard to the place, on account of the waveswhich might be caused by the birth of an iceberg fromthe glacier close by, and encamped for our next nightsoutingo I did pay sufficient attention to the fears ofmy natives to have them haul the boat well up abovethe highest high-water mark. While we were sleep-ing here, one of my own hunters, Koolootingwah,who seemed sleepless and tireless, climbed to the. HART OR LIZARD GLACIER. crest of the island, and when I wakened in the morn-ing, he proudly informed me that he had killed fourreindeer. As the morning gave promise of a glimpseof the sun, which thus far we had not had since weleft Red Cliff, I started for the summit of the islandimmediately after breakfast, in the hopes of gettingan observation and a round of angles. Incidentally,also, I was desirous of seeing the deer which myhunter had killed. Sure enough, I found them with-in a distance of a hundred yards of each other, wherehe had crept upon them and shot them while sleep-ing,—four magnificent bucks. Boat Voyage into Inglefield Gulf 401 While the view from the south end of this islandwas almost all water, from this northern or inner endthe view was entirely ice. Here the frozen waves ofthe great glaciers beat against the foot of the islandcliffs. Some of the ice-waves of one of these glaciers—which I named in honour of that spl
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