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 . HEADLANDS OF NORTHUMBERLAND Contrasts of Sky Contour. and precipitous brown cliffs one thousand to fifteenhundred feet in height, interrupted by numeroussmall glaciers, and surmounted by a succession ofice-domes wit
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 . HEADLANDS OF NORTHUMBERLAND Contrasts of Sky Contour. and precipitous brown cliffs one thousand to fifteenhundred feet in height, interrupted by numeroussmall glaciers, and surmounted by a succession ofice-domes with their connecting saddles, extendsnorth-westerly a distance of thirty-five miles to thesharp-pointed, ragged islet known as Conical Rock. Millions of little auks breed all along this shore,and the fertilising effect of their presence, combinedwith the naturally deep rock colouring, gives to thecliffs in summer an unexpected warmth of rich 454 Northward over the Great Ice In early summer, after the meUing of the snow is wellunder way, the presence of considerable quantities ofthe so-called red snow gives an excuse perhaps for therather vivid name of Crimson Cliffs, applied byCaptain Ross. Abreast of Conical Rock, the shorefor two or three miles is a vertical cliff swarming withlooms and kittiwake gulls, then it retreats, forming alittle bight two or three miles wide and four or fivedeep, which does not appear on the charts. A few
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