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 . fearing others ahead I deflected aboutfive miles to the eastward, and then resumed mycourse. The rough nature of the ice made this daysmarch comparatively short, and the atmospheric indic-ations being those of a coming storm, I hal
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 . fearing others ahead I deflected aboutfive miles to the eastward, and then resumed mycourse. The rough nature of the ice made this daysmarch comparatively short, and the atmospheric indic-ations being those of a coming storm, I halted earlyto permit the construction of an igloo to shelter blue-black sky with angry lead-coloured clouds 294 Northward over the Great Ice massing beneath it, tlie ghastly whiteness of the ice-bhnk, and the raw, cuttino- south-east wind could notbe misunderstood, and before our igloo was completeeverything was blotted out by the driving Gibson, I pitied him that night, for it was histurn to do the costume act, as we called it; in otherwords, it was his turn to sleep fully dressed outside,so that he could attend instantly to a loose dog beforehe had done any damage. Our dogs were alwaysbad enough in wind and storm, but this time, as thestorm continued, they seemed as if possessed of devils,howling, fighting, and tearing themselves loose from. ON THE MARCH. the stakes to which they were fastened, and whenfinally Gibson, weary with his efforts at re-capturing,fell asleep for a few moments reclining against theentrance of the igloo, one of them ate the bottom offhis sleeping-bag, while another bolted about six poundsof cranberry jam, nearly half my entire stock for thelong journey. Forty-eight hours of incessant windand snow, and then the storm passed over north-westinto Kane Basin, and left us in peace. As we crawledout of our ieloo into the brilliant sunshine and lookedover that unbroken expanse of snow, stretching tothe horizon in every direction, carved and sco
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