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 . ect, it should havetaken about two marches more to have brouo-htme within sight of this inlet, but I assumed thatnaturally the delineation of the inner portion of the ICE MOUND, PETERMANN BASIN. great fjord might be considerably ou
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 . ect, it should havetaken about two marches more to have brouo-htme within sight of this inlet, but I assumed thatnaturally the delineation of the inner portion of the ICE MOUND, PETERMANN BASIN. great fjord might be considerably out in latitude,and that what I saw before me must be Sherard Os-borne. Future developments showed me that I waswrong, and that St. Georges Fjord penetrates far-ther inland than had been supposed, and that thiswas what I saw before me. The latter part of themarch of June 8th had been through threateningweather, the sky overcast, the distant land dark andindistinct, and that peculiar light over the Inland Ice To the Northern End of Greenland 309 which makes it impossible to distinguish its relief. Iknew, however, not only from my aneroids, but fromthe way the sledges travelled, that we were descend-ing quite rapidly, and this, with the occurrence of sev-eral patches of bare blue ice, caused me to hesitate,and finally call a halt on the completion of the twenty-. A TYPICAL CAMP. first mile, though we could easily have accomplishedfour or five miles more. The experiences of the next two weeks showedthe wisdom of my cautiousness, and that it wouldhave been much better if I had had a premonitionof trouble still earlier in the day. We had hardlymade camp and finished our dinner, when the gather-ing storm broke upon us, and once more we had toput up with being imprisoned—Astrup under the 3IO Northward over the Great Ice sledge tarpaulin, myself in the little excavation halfcovered with a sail which we called our kitchen—for two days, with the wind howling past us downthe slope towar
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