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 . CAMP MUSK-OX. the surface of a mighty glacier on our right andthrough the broad mouth of the bay, we saw stretchingaway to the horizon the great ice-fields of the ArcticOcean. We had travelled twenty-six miles in a north-easterly d
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 . CAMP MUSK-OX. the surface of a mighty glacier on our right andthrough the broad mouth of the bay, we saw stretchingaway to the horizon the great ice-fields of the ArcticOcean. We had travelled twenty-six miles in a north-easterly direction from Moraine Camp, where we hadleft our sledge. From the edee of the towering cliff on which westood, and in the clear light of the brilliant summerday, the view that spread away before us was magnifi- 344 Northward over the Great Ice cent beyond description. Silently Astriip and myselftook off our packs and seated ourselves upon them tofix in memory every detail of the never-to-be-forgottenscene before us. All our fatigues of six weeks struggleover the ice-cap were forgotten in the grandeur of thatview. Our observation point was a giant cliff, almost. VIEW FROM NAVY CLIFF. vertical, overlooking the bay and a great glacier thatentered the bay on our right. We thought we hadleft the Inland Ice behind us, but here was a mightyice-stream, one of the largest we had seen in Greenland,that had pushed out from the ice-cap to find the over our right shoulder to the south-east, wecould see, beyond the thousand red boulders in theforeground, and through a depression in the hills, Northernmost Greenland 345 the middle course of the broad ice-river glistening inthe sun. Across the glacier, bounding the fjord on the east,rose a long line of precipitous, bronzed cliffs, highereven than the one on which we stood, and projectingseveral miles farther out into the bay. They rosefour thousand or more feet in sheer height above theglacier, and terminated in a grim promontory s
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