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 . su and her fam-ily, and partly to try the dogs. Astriip and Annowkahaccompanied me, and I took my long sledge. We leftRed cliff House at 10:15 , passed Cape Cleveland ateleven oclock, and reached the east end of Herbert Isl-and
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 . su and her fam-ily, and partly to try the dogs. Astriip and Annowkahaccompanied me, and I took my long sledge. We leftRed cliff House at 10:15 , passed Cape Cleveland ateleven oclock, and reached the east end of Herbert Isl-and at three There we found several ruined stoneigloos, two of which had been fixed up and made habit-able. They were built of large red, sandstone extreme east end of Herbert Island is a fine boldcliff of dark red sandstone, with a cap one hundred Preparing for the Ice-Cap Campaign 237 to one hundred and fifty feet thick of hghter entire end of the island is unscalable. I stoppedlone enouofh to make tea and take our lunch in oneof the igloos, dig out the blubber from its pile ofstones and get it down to the sledge. Then, at 5, we started on the return. With a gross load ofabout three hundred pounds, the dogs went along verywell for some time, but getting tired, and I havingbroken my whip, they shirked their work, and Astriap. TALAKOTEAH AND HIS FAMILY. and Annowkah had to take turns pulling with 11:15 we passed Cape Cleveland again, and at11:55 I entered Red Cliff House, having been absent13I- hours, of which 11^ were spent travelling. Friday, April 8th, Gibson and Kessuh returnedin the afternoon, having had no luck hunting. I ?0 8 Northward over the Great Ice purchased all five of Kessuhs dogs. Next morning,I started again with Kessuh, six dogs and sledge forthe east end of Herbert Island. We reached theisland at three , got a little dog meat, travelledalong the north shore of the Island, dug out two cachedseals, and reached home a
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