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 . number of works on i\rctic explora-tion, novels, and other reading matter, and also anItalian dictionary which some kind friend had sentus without accompany-ing it with any litera-ture in that language. When the snowcame, the wall
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 . number of works on i\rctic explora-tion, novels, and other reading matter, and also anItalian dictionary which some kind friend had sentus without accompany-ing it with any litera-ture in that language. When the snowcame, the wall allaround was heavilybanked with snow, anda foot of snow waspiled on the canvasroof of the corridor orpassage-way betweenthe house and the wallaround it. Then, withblocks and slabs ofhard snow, a thick wallwas built to protectthe Q^able, and withmore blocks and slabsa long, narrow, lowsnow entrance to thecorridor was fortress was then completely fortified against theseverest assaults of the arctic winter. On the whole, with the exception of the first tendays, we had very beautiful weather for a monthafter the Kite left us. Day after day, the sun shonebrightly. The water of the bay was blue and spark-lino- and the iceberors oleamed in the menial sunlightlike marble, while the wind blew soft and warm. Ithink the weather we enjoyed during August must. UNTOLD Knife and Mirror in the Womans Hand. 86 Northward over the Great Ice be exceptional in that far northern region ; or perhapsit was the Indian summer of the arctic lands. Fore-warnings of approaching winter came to us, however,before the end of the month. In the latter part ofAuo^ust we had considerable fogf and threatening-weather. On August 28th, it began snowing andthe snow fell rapidly for an hour or two. Next daythe mountains on both sides of the bay were coveredwith snow to within about 400 feet of the sea alternated with snow and the day was very
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