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 . BACK TO RED CLIFF. skins Upon the snow, crept into our sleeping-bags, andwent to sleep in the sun. Here, after some four hourssleep, we were joined by Tahtahrah and Koolooting-wah, two young Eskimos, who had come out from RedCliff
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 . BACK TO RED CLIFF. skins Upon the snow, crept into our sleeping-bags, andwent to sleep in the sun. Here, after some four hourssleep, we were joined by Tahtahrah and Koolooting-wah, two young Eskimos, who had come out from RedCliff on one of my sledges, with one of my Winches-ters and their own dogs, after seals. They had alreadyobtained two, and loading these upon their sledgethey started off over the now well-travelled road Around Inglefield Gulf by Sledge 273 to Cape Cleveland, We soon followed them, and alittle before midnight on Sunday, April 24th, we camedashing over the ice-foot in front of Red Cliff, after asledge journey of some two hundred and fifty miles,and an absence of a week from our Greenland CHAPTER X. EQUIPMENT, ROUTINE, AND BEGINNING OF THE WHITE MARCH. At Sea as to Conditions to be Encountered—EquipiMent—Dogs—Clothing—Provisions—Instruments—Routine of March—The Start—Stormy Weather—Incorrigible Dogs—Sleepless Work—My LegTroubles me—Reach Edge of True Inland Ice at Last—Over theFirst Divide—Into the Humboldt-Glacier Basin—A Storm—CampSeparation—Gibson and Dr. Cook Start Back.
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