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 . *»««te^aK 2a«fc*ij CONICAL ROCK. sun is as long in traversing this short distance as heis in passing from Halifax to New York. 446 Northward over the Great Ice The great Arctic night at the southern extremity ofthe country is one h
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 . *»««te^aK 2a«fc*ij CONICAL ROCK. sun is as long in traversing this short distance as heis in passing from Halifax to New York. 446 Northward over the Great Ice The great Arctic night at the southern extremity ofthe country is one hundred and three days long, whileat the northern point it is one hundred and twenty-three. Comparatively slight as is the difference in latitudebetween the northern and southern limits of the region,the winter night is twenty days longer at the formerthan at the latter. Taking the mean latitude, it may. AKPANI and Ice-Cap in Background. be said that for one hundred and ten days in summer,the sun shines continuously throughout the twenty-fourhours on the savage grandeur of the land ; and thatfor one hundred and ten days in winter no ray of lightexcept those from the icy stars and the dead moonfalls on the silent frozen landscape ; while, for two in-termediate periods of a little over two months in thespring and fall, there is night and day of rapidly vary-ing ratio. Appendix 447 There is a savage grandeur in these rugged lands,their character formed by contact with the bergs andfloes, such as never greets the traveller to southernclimes. Yet, forbidding as the coast may appear to the rap-idly passing Arctic voyager, those who know it well,know that behind the savage outer mask, the featuresof which have been carved by eternal conflict withstorms and glaciers, bergs and grinding ice-fields.
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