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 . SOURCE OF THE ACADEMY GLACIER. From this summit we kept along the crest of the rangeof rock-strewn mountains, parallel w^ith the greatglacier east of us. A region of such utter barrenness I never saw be-fore. The arctic poppy was t
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 . SOURCE OF THE ACADEMY GLACIER. From this summit we kept along the crest of the rangeof rock-strewn mountains, parallel w^ith the greatglacier east of us. A region of such utter barrenness I never saw be-fore. The arctic poppy was the only flower thatcould find a footing. Upon a surface of small, angu-lar stones, compressed and half cemented together bythe enormous pressure of superincumbent ice-fieldsages ago, were strewn larger loose fragments, singly, 334 Northward over the ** Great Ice in piles, and in long moraines ; and yet, even here,traces of musk-oxen were abundant, as if it were oneof their favourite haunts. After ten hours marching,rendered doubly severe by the enervating effect ofthe high temperature, we halted for rest between amound of boulders and a snow-drift, and, throwing upa wind-guard of stones, turned in to sleep. The con-stant scrambling over sharp rocks of all sizes had beenextremely trying to Astriip and myself. The fatigue. NUNATAKS OF THE ACADEMY GLACIER. of climbing with our heavy packs and hampered bythe dogs was greatly increased by the debilitating in-fluence of what seemed to us an almost tropical tem-perature, accustomed as we had become to the clear,cold, searching atmosphere of the Inland Ice; and theterrible travellino- over the grlacial tumuli and mor-aines had been exceedingly severe upon our foot-gearand our muscles. We had now advanced far enough on our way down Northernmost Greenland 135 the valleys and over the mountains to descry verydistant land beyond what appeared to be the head-lands of a fjord. But we were too far away to see allthis clearly. The mystery of t
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