. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. i \ir, U'i ) '; J ^'^i i '\ I V: ' >1 is l» if 1 , i ^< 150 Northward over the "Great Ice" summit of one of these domes, and
. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. i \ir, U'i ) '; J ^'^i i '\ I V: ' >1 is l» if 1 , i ^< 150 Northward over the "Great Ice" summit of one of these domes, and looked down into the bay at our feet, and out over the outer expanse of Whale Sound and its triple islands. The direct descent from where we stood to the lower portion of the Tyndall Glacier was a nearly ver- tical ice-slope, surchari^cd upon a vertical cliff, and we were forced to make a detour southward to the more. T IE "FALCON" IN THE HARBOUK AGAIN. practicable slopes at the glacier head. After trav- elling some few miles in this direction, we seated our- selves upon the sledges for one of the grandest and most exhilarating of toboggan slides. The start was a giant ice-dome, more than three thousand feet above the sea; the toboggan slide, the serpentine icy slope of the great Tyndall Glacier ; the toboggan, one of the clippers of the new tleet of V. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Peary, Robert E. , 1856-1920. New York : F. A. Stokes
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