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 . not recog-nise, came into our vil-lage with a rush, theirtraces draesfinsf behindthem. About an hourlater, Nipsangwah ofKeati, and Tahwanafrom the head of Ingle-field Gulf, came in withthree more dogs. Tahwana had fallen into the w
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 . not recog-nise, came into our vil-lage with a rush, theirtraces draesfinsf behindthem. About an hourlater, Nipsangwah ofKeati, and Tahwanafrom the head of Ingle-field Gulf, came in withthree more dogs. Tahwana had fallen into the waterand their sledge had been left behind on the ice. Igave them both a hot rum punch and they turned inon the floor, Nipsangwah was the brother of Annowkah, theDaisys husband. Tahwana lived with his familyand one other far up the head of Inglefield Gulf. Nip-sangwah was a powerful, quick, athletic man, whileTahwana was a queer, pigeontoed, little fellow witha defect in his eyes, and a walk like that of a bantamrooster, I learned from my visitors that there was still openwater in the neighbourhood of Hakluyt Island and be-tween it and Northumberland Island ; and also thatthe ice in the Sound between our camp and Northum-berland was very thin and in places dangerous, thethick snow protecting it from the low temperatures NIPSANGWAH. Through the Great Night 195. and the water wearing it away beneath. At Keateand Netiulume there was Httle snow and high windshad prevailed. At the head of Inglefield Gulf therewas a good deal of snow. Merktoshar, the one-eyedhunter of Netiulume,and Kudlah had killed ayoung bear near CapeParry. It was encourag-ing to see seven fine dogsat the door and to knowthat the dreaded pib-lockto, or doof disease,had done practically nodamage to the animalsin our neis^hbourhood. Friday morning, Feb-ruary 12th, Astriip and Istarted with our ski andsnow-shoes and fur suitsto take a look at the ice-cap beyond Four-Mile Valley. We left Red Cliff House at 9:30 , a
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