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 . ROCK STRATIFICATION. North Side of Little Matterhorn. Around Inglefield Gulf by Sledge 265 island, which I named Ptarmiofan, from the numeroustracks upon it, our course lay straight across the mouthof the Bay to Tahwanas igloo. Arr
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 . ROCK STRATIFICATION. North Side of Little Matterhorn. Around Inglefield Gulf by Sledge 265 island, which I named Ptarmiofan, from the numeroustracks upon it, our course lay straight across the mouthof the Bay to Tahwanas igloo. Arriving here, I madeno stop except to unload my sledge, and then, with Kud-lah for driver, kept straight up the Gulf eastward for thegreat glacier, whose gleaming face we could distinctlysee from the igloo. It was just after midnight when weleft Tahwanas. and we found the snow much deeperand softer beyond here, and the travelling was conse-. FACE OF HEILPRIN GLACIER. quently more laborious. Two or three miles beforereaching the glacier itself, we passed a small island ofrock, which, seen from the west, is such a perfect coun-terpart, on a small scale, of the Matterhorn, that 1named it at once the Little Matterhorn. My objectivepoint was one of the rocky islands, half buried in theface of the glacier, and probably destined soon to be-come a nunatak. Reaching the shore of this island andtelling Kudlah to look out for the dogs and sledge, Mrs. 266 Northward over the Great Ice Peary and I put on our snow-shoes and climbed to thesummit, over the rough rocks and across the deep driftsof snow. From this point we commanded the entire width of the ereat orlacier, from the main shore of the • 1Gulf to the south, and comparatively near us, north-ward to the distant Smithson Mountains. An archipelago of small islands here is evidently aserious obstacle to the great glacier, and has resultedin deflecting the ice-stream north-westwar
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