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 . with us. The next day, I examined the igloos. There were twonatural fireplaces where the soot on the stones showedthat they had used these places for that purpose. The usual collection of bones and debris surroundedthese stone iglo
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 . with us. The next day, I examined the igloos. There were twonatural fireplaces where the soot on the stones showedthat they had used these places for that purpose. The usual collection of bones and debris surroundedthese stone igloos. The one fixed up for winter hadbeen cleaned out thoroughly, re-covered with moss,and YiQ-ht stones on the outside of the moss. There were a number of bird and blubber cachesto the rear of each of the houses, but no caches were all empty but one, which containeda small amount of blubber. ii8 Northward over the Great Ice I found three graves about fifty yards to the rear ofthe igloos, but the bones were so much destroyedthat one could hardly find them. As we got in our boat and ready to start off, theydid not seem inclined to come with us, but aftera little gentle persuasion the man got his kayak, thewoman and her children got in, then the man wentafter his dog. We now thought that we had thesepeople secure, and would bring them home, but he. JOSEPHINE GLACIER, NORTHUMBERLAND ISLAND. soon told us that there were more Osikees aroundthe cape. As we got around the cape, we saw a tupek, and aman in a kayak came out to meet us. This kayaker seemed more than pleased to see us ;his face was all aglow with smiles. He piloted us tothe settlement, which had by this time all assembled,the men on the beach, the women and children in arow on the rocks in front of the first tupek. Our friends from the other settlement left us had lunch and again shared part of it with these Boat Voyage to the Islands 119 people. One of the men got a boiled burgomastergull, and offere
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