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 . B^^^^^M striking bold- mmmsm^ ^^^^^^H ness. Lulled by ^^^^|^|k ^^^^^1^1 the rushino- ala- ^^^^^^^K - ]^^^1^H cial stream, we ^^^^^^HK ^H^HH slept soundly, ^|^^^HH^^^^^^w^^^^^9 hours HH^^HH^^HHHi^^^^H^H find our world a titan watch-
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 . B^^^^^M striking bold- mmmsm^ ^^^^^^H ness. Lulled by ^^^^|^|k ^^^^^1^1 the rushino- ala- ^^^^^^^K - ]^^^1^H cial stream, we ^^^^^^HK ^H^HH slept soundly, ^|^^^HH^^^^^^w^^^^^9 hours HH^^HH^^HHHi^^^^H^H find our world a titan watch-tower. covered with a light mantle of newly fallen snow. This snow dis-appeared as the sun swung upward from the east, andlaunching the Mary Peary, we pulled out under thegreat cliffs, among a labyrinth of bergs and berg frag-ments. All the forenoon we crept along under the 392 Northward over the Great Ice mighty ramparts, in one place a Titan watch-tower, inanother a giant amphitheatre, here a niche, there abastion, and between and over them grouped rowsof pinnacles which required but little imagination totransform into statues. So striking is the resem-blance of these pinnacles to the human form, that ithas appealed even to the rather unimaginative senseof the Eskimos, and the cliffs are known to them asthe Statue Cliffs. In numerous places, silver threads. SOUTH Bay. of cascades flow down the cliffs from the edge of theice-cap far above. Much of this time it was raining, and as we roundedthe point that ends this striking feature, which I calledthe Sculptured Cliffs of Karnah, and entered a littlecove curving in to the face of a glacier, we were onlytoo delighted to see several deer crossing the slope,and have an excuse to land and stretch our stiff limbsin an effort to bag some of them. Our efforts, how-ever, were unsuccessful, and re-entering the boat, weleft this little bay, the water of which is red almost as Boat Voyage into Inglefield Gulf 393 freshly sp
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