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 . the walls of which he had begunbuilding the day before. He carried stones for quitea distance, some of them weighing as much as one hun-dred pounds. On August 27th, soon after midnight, Gibson, Matt,and Ikwa went out and orot a fem
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 . the walls of which he had begunbuilding the day before. He carried stones for quitea distance, some of them weighing as much as one hun-dred pounds. On August 27th, soon after midnight, Gibson, Matt,and Ikwa went out and orot a female wahus and ayoung one. The young animal, which was also afemale, was brought ashore and it barked about thebeach much like a hoarse bulldog until it was shot 94 Northward over the Great Ice to put it out of its misery. We also killed a goodmany burgomaster gulls, auks, and other birds near the camp. Late in themonth, we saw the sunset, a phenomenon thathad not occurred beforesince we reached thearctic regions. On thenight of August 29th, alight was needed forthe first time and thewatch burned candlesfor several hours. Thelong summer day wasat an end, but winterwas not yet upon us. Monday, August 31 St,dawned clear and calm,and I Started Astriipwith his ski for a twen-ty-four-hour reconnais-sance of the Inland Ice,east of McCormick returned at mid-. GREENLAND FALCON. night after a sixteen-hour absence. He had travelled an estimated distanceof seventeen miles, but had not rounded the head ofthe bay. The greatest altitude he attained was 2645feet and the lowest temperature was +25° F. Hereported that the travelling on the Inland Ice, as faras he was able to see it, was perfection. He saw nocrevasses, rivers, or ponds. His observations, how-ever, tended to show that our start for the springsledsfinsf on the Inland Ice must be made from thenorth-east side of the bay, as a deep valley seemed tocut through from the valley at the head of McCor-mick Bay southward to Whale Sou
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