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 . ccupied by Tahwana, with his ipun-gah (companion) Kudlah and their families. TheseEskimos had left their common igloo at the head ofthe Gulf, and were on their way to Red Cliff, and itbeing now the season of the year when the seals
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 . ccupied by Tahwana, with his ipun-gah (companion) Kudlah and their families. TheseEskimos had left their common igloo at the head ofthe Gulf, and were on their way to Red Cliff, and itbeing now the season of the year when the seals bringforth their young in their snow houses near the ice-bergs, they were travelling leisurely, and living uponthe fat of the land in the shape of both young andold seals, which they surprised in their retreats. Stopping here just long enough to acquaint the two Around Inglefield Gulf by Sledge 263 men with the fact that I wished to purchase from them,such material for clothing as they might have, we kepton our course to the head of the Gulf, the two menaccompanying us, running alternately behind andalongside of the sledge. All the way up to this pointfrom Ittibloo, I had been able to look directly into avery considerable bay on the north side of the Gulf, abay extending about due north to the ice-cap, whereit ended at two or three great glaciers, separated. LION ISLANDS. Looking from Nunatoksoah. by black nunataks. This was evidently the baywhich Astriip, in his ice-cap reconnaissance duringAugust, had reported as cutting across his path, andwhich he and Gibson had reported as having seen,during their September and October ice-cap journeys,extending from near the head of Tooktoo Valleysouthward to Whale Sound. Now, as we proceededup the Sound from Tahwanas temporary igloo, thepanorama of Inglefield Gulf began to open out beforeme, and I recognised as a certainty what I had forsome time surmised, that such maps as we have of 264 Northward over the Great Ice Inglefield Gulf and
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