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 . a ship coming north fromWolstenholm Island, Hakluyt, Northumberland, andthe western point of Herbert Island have been visiblefor some time before reaching the cape. During the long summer day, the water below thedark cliff is alive
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 . a ship coming north fromWolstenholm Island, Hakluyt, Northumberland, andthe western point of Herbert Island have been visiblefor some time before reaching the cape. During the long summer day, the water below thedark cliff is alive with the whirring wings and g-leam-ing white breasts of countless little auks. Roundingthe cape, there opens up the wide expanse of one ofthe largest, most diversified, and most attractive of ) 45S Northward over the Great Ice Arctic inlets. Fifty-five miles wide at its mouth, whichis divided into two broad channels by a trio of command-ing islands, and eighty miles deep, it presents everyphase of Arctic scenery, climate, and life,—is, in fact, ahttle Arctic world in itself. Along its shores are to befound low grassy slopes ; towering cliffs, massive andsolid, carved, by the Titan agencies of the savageNorth, into wild forms; wind-swept points wherenothing can exist; sheltered nooks where never a vio-lent breath of air penetrates ; valleys where luxuriant. SOUTH GLACIER. grass is brightened by myriads of yellow, purple, blue,and white flowers ; slopes and plateaus as barren asthe surface of a cinder pile; huge glaciers whichlaunch a prolific progeny of bergs into the sea ; tinyglaciers which cling tenaciously in the angles of thecliffs ; miles and miles of glistening blue, berg-dottedwater ; and everywhere a few miles back from theshore, the shore of that other silent, eternal, frozendesert sea, the Great Ice. This Sound was one of the earliest discovered andnamed localities of the Arctic regions of the eastern Appendix 459 hemisphere. Baffin in 1616 anchored behind Hak-luit
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