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 . owik, Great Arch at Cape York, Bell Rock, HalfDome, and the Ignimut, or Firestone. Then thereare countless plunging cascades, brawling streams,glacier grottos, and the ever-present yet ever-changingfleet of stately bergs which ride
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 . owik, Great Arch at Cape York, Bell Rock, HalfDome, and the Ignimut, or Firestone. Then thereare countless plunging cascades, brawling streams,glacier grottos, and the ever-present yet ever-changingfleet of stately bergs which ride in every inlet andcruise along each mile of coast. Such is this reg^ion in summer. In winter it wouldhardly be recognised. The land is shrouded in snow,and shows a ghastly grey in the dim starlight; thesea is white and rigid ; no sound is in the bitter air,which is pungent with frost spiculse ; light and lifehave fied ; land, and sea, and sky, and air, are dark anddead and frozen. APPENDIX 11. THE SMITH-SOUND ESKIMOS The Most Northerly Human Beings on the Globe—A Little, IsolatedCommunity—Origin — Physical Appearances — Types — EthnologicalRecords—Disposition—Life — Government — Astronomy— Morals—Physique—Habitations—Food—Occupations—Sports—Old Friends. M ^^tt J ^ m A SMITH-SOUND ESKIMO. APPENDIX 11. THE SMITH-SOUND ESKIMOS.^. OF all interestingaboriginal tribesof men, there isnone more strikingly sothan the little communityof Eskimos whose habi-tat is the west coast ofGreenland, between Mel-ville Bay and Kane smallness of thistribe, its complete isola-tion and self-dependence,its extreme northerly location, the stress of hostileconditions under which it maintains its existence, thehuman interest connected with it as the result of thewritings of Kane, Hayes, and other Arctic explorers,and the uncertainty as to its origin and early history,combine to place it at the head of the list. Scattered along the shores of the Arctic oasis al- No
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