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 . 132 Northward over the Great Ice ated the distance from the camp to the edge of theice-cap at less than four miles. That night it looked very threatening down at themouth of the bay, and Sunday morning was raw anddisagreeable, the
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 . 132 Northward over the Great Ice ated the distance from the camp to the edge of theice-cap at less than four miles. That night it looked very threatening down at themouth of the bay, and Sunday morning was raw anddisagreeable, the outer half of the bay hidden in fall-ing snow. The Inland-Ice party and Dr. Cook startedup the bluffs with loads varying from fifty-two tofifty-eight pounds. They returned in four or fivehours, and I had the boat turned bottom up and sentthem into their bags under it. About four , I. the bluffstrip not FIRST HANGING GLACIER. turned them out and started them up with a second load. Returning from this long before midnight, thoroughly tired, they all turned in under the boat. Meanwhile, Ikwa had obtained another deer. Throughout the day it snowed at the entrance of the bay. Monday was a repetition of Sundays stormy let the boys sleep during the morning, and not until I Boat and Sledge Trips 133 eleven did I tell them to get their last loadsready, break camp, and put the boat in the water formy return to Red Cliff House. By the time this wasdone and the boys had filled themselves with venison,roasted at a fireplace which I had improvised underthe bank, Vv^ith an old box for fuel, it was nearly , and the wind was whistling over our heads anddown the bay at the liveliest rate. Dr. Cook wentwith the three Inland-Ice men to carry a load, and Itold him to return as soon as possible, so that wecould start for the house and get out over the dykeof rock
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