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 . AKPANI and Ice-Cap in Background. be said that for one hundred and ten days in summer,the sun shines continuously throughout the twenty-fourhours on the savage grandeur of the land ; and thatfor one hundred and ten d
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 . AKPANI and Ice-Cap in Background. be said that for one hundred and ten days in summer,the sun shines continuously throughout the twenty-fourhours on the savage grandeur of the land ; and thatfor one hundred and ten days in winter no ray of lightexcept those from the icy stars and the dead moonfalls on the silent frozen landscape ; while, for two in-termediate periods of a little over two months in thespring and fall, there is night and day of rapidly vary-ing ratio. Appendix 447 There is a savage grandeur in these rugged lands,their character formed by contact with the bergs andfloes, such as never greets the traveller to southernclimes. Yet, forbidding as the coast may appear to the rap-idly passing Arctic voyager, those who know it well,know that behind the savage outer mask, the featuresof which have been carved by eternal conflict withstorms and glaciers, bergs and grinding DALRYMPLE ROCK. nestle in summer many grass-carpeted, flower-sprin-kled, sun-kissed nooks, where mild-eyed deer browse,and twittering snow-buntings fill the air with liquidnotes. Beyond the inherently attractive natural features ofthis region, it has claims upon a strong human interestin that it is, and has been for ages, the eternally ice- 44^ Northward over the Great Ice imprisoned home of a Httle tribe of happy, care-free,independent, seh-supporting aborigines, the mostnortherly known people on the globe. Historically the country has been known since 1616,when Bylot and Bafhn, after a surprising voyagethrough Melville Bay, ran along a portion of the coast,applied a few names, and anchored in one or t
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