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 . changed to sleet,and, the wind increasing,I called a halt three thou-sand feet above the the sledges up-on their sides, and plac-ing our rubber pillowsand blankets in their lee,we lay down. By thistime the wind had be-c
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 . changed to sleet,and, the wind increasing,I called a halt three thou-sand feet above the the sledges up-on their sides, and plac-ing our rubber pillowsand blankets in their lee,we lay down. By thistime the wind had be-come a gale, and thesleet, changed to snow,was driving in a continu-ous sheet over the topsof the sledo^es. We lay behind oursledges, which with our-selves were soon buriedin the drift, until late inthe afternoon of thesecond day, when thesteady roar of the stormbroke into intermittent squalls, and crawling outwe got momentary glimpses, behind and below us,of a dense mass of clouds, black beneath and dark,dull lead colour above, hurrying northward just abovethe summits of the land. The land itself, hoary inits elevated portions with the newly fallen snow, layeverywhere else as black as midnight, and the fjordhad become a pool of ink. Ahead of us, a pale super-natural glare rose nearly to the zenith, and in everydirection the ice-blink, swept by furious snow^. DANISH ESKIMO Greenland Styles in SealskinJackets, and Characteristic EskimoMethod of Carrying Children. lo Northward over the Great Ice squalls, and its inequalities obliterated in the shadow-less light, stretched dead and silent. At six , the clouds growing blacker and blackerevery moment, and every indication pointing to aprotracted storm, I decided to take the instrumentsand go back to the tent and await more favourableweather. At the level of the brink of the ice-tonsfueoverlooking the razored descent throu^rh the crevassesand gulches to the ice-foot, rain had fallen, instead ofsnow, and the edges of
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