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 . 4 Northward over the Great Ice ship ; the next, the ship rohing and pitching as ifmad, the decks awash with water, and the foam andspray driving over the rail and across the companion-way in a bhnding drift of snow, while overhead
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 . 4 Northward over the Great Ice ship ; the next, the ship rohing and pitching as ifmad, the decks awash with water, and the foam andspray driving over the rail and across the companion-way in a bhnding drift of snow, while overhead therigging was shrieking and the stay-sails tense as ironin a wild north-easterly INSPECTOR NEILS Greenland Inspectorate. Perhaps the next day the Eagle s deck was as levelas a floor, though the whole ship was vibrating with Reconnaissance of 1886 5 the hum of the frosted rigging overhead, while justabove the crows-nest spread a hfeless dome of lead ;to leeward a sea of ink, blacker yet by contrastwith the spray cut from the waves and whirled andbeaten into snow-flakes, rising in the distance to meeta sky black as itself ; close to windward a solid grind-ing white pack imprisoning two or three huge spec-tral bergs, and above it a narrow band of light, the ice-blink, like a long, low, mid-winter sunset, or thefrosty two-edged blade of a viking. Then running out of the fog and storm, we wouldenter a rippling sea of sapphire and gold, with an ex-quisite mackerel sky above, and here and there a berggleaming blue and rose in the level rays of the mid-night sun. June 6th, the Eagle left me at Godhavn andsteamed away for the northern whaling I
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