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 . ice-cap work of 1894. Afterthe return from the ice-cap, Panikpa was lost by one of my hunting parties anddragged himself back to the lodge two weeks later completely exhausted. Henever recovered entirelv from the strain of this exp
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 . ice-cap work of 1894. Afterthe return from the ice-cap, Panikpa was lost by one of my hunting parties anddragged himself back to the lodge two weeks later completely exhausted. Henever recovered entirelv from the strain of this experience, and remainedwith me at the lodge until I came home in 1S95, when I gave him to was still alive in the summer of 1896 and remembered me with every markof affection. Merktoshar was also alive in the summer of 1896. Lion died atKarnah in December, 1895, in the heart of the great night which he knewso well. Eight Thousand Feet above the Sea 77 indescribable thrill of pleasure, at the end of our firstmarch after reachina^ the five-thousand-foot level, amarch during which we covered twenty-two miles,that I found my dogs still comparatively fresh. Thenext day we covered a little more ; the next, morestill; and yet each night it seemed as if we were asfresh as in the morning. The weather during thistime was perfection, and never have I experienced. PROF. HEILPRIN AND HIS PARTY. more fully the moral effect resulting from the physi-cal exhilaration of rapid travelling. The dogs felt itas much as, perhaps more than, Astriip and I ; andthough their natural long, wolfish gallop had beentrained out of them by the heavy, laborious pullingof the last three months, still the old flash and firewere there. They had not been worked beyondtheir elastic limit, their tails were raised and tightly 378 Northward over the Great Ice curled, and I knew that I was bringing back fromone of the longest of sledge journeys, with the heavi-est of loads and a minimum of food, a team of dogsact
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