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 . NATIVES AND FOREIGNERS. Photo, by Gibson. red cliffs in McCormick Bay very distinctly. Whenabout two miles from Herbert Island, we fell in withapparently the same belt of ice we had encounteredon our outward journey, also the walru
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 . NATIVES AND FOREIGNERS. Photo, by Gibson. red cliffs in McCormick Bay very distinctly. Whenabout two miles from Herbert Island, we fell in withapparently the same belt of ice we had encounteredon our outward journey, also the walrus, which seemedquite as plentiful as they were before. Ikwa appar-ently being anxious to tackle them, I steered in thedirection of a hummocky cake on which one animalwas sleeping. Ikwa waited until we were within about Boat Voyage to the Islands 113 ten feet of the cake, when he phinged his harpoon intoits side. At the same instant, a shot from Astriips riflepracticahy settled it. The wahus came to the surfacebut once, towed us a httle distance, and then the Hne. ESKIMO VILLAGE OF KEATE, NORTHUMBERLAND and Elevation, Drawn by Eivind Astrilp. suddenly tightened, this time pointing directly this excitement was eoinor on we had been ex-changing random shots at other walrus, inflicting onlyoccasional flesh wounds. While engaged in pulling in 114 Northward over the Great Ice the dead one, a big bull walrus, apparently more boldthan the rest, rose within a few feet of our boat, and Iwas fortunate in lodging a bullet from my rifle in hisvertebra, killing him instantly. Ikwa fastened his otherharpoon point in him and we soon had them along-side of us. Ikwa proceeded (as I at first supposed)to bleed them, but I soon discovered he intendedonly saving the heads. I let him cast the carcassof the big one adrift, saving only the head and ivory,but the other one I made fast to the stern, andwe commenced what proved to be a most laborioustask, towing it home. During the
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