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 . 875-76 Expedition, as pilotand interpreter. My plan, in outline, was to gain the border of theinterior ice at some point as near the north-east angle of Disco Bay as pos-sible, my preferencebeing the base ofNoursoak Peninsula,and t
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 . 875-76 Expedition, as pilotand interpreter. My plan, in outline, was to gain the border of theinterior ice at some point as near the north-east angle of Disco Bay as pos-sible, my preferencebeing the base ofNoursoak Peninsula,and then takeacoursetowards PetermannsMountain on theeast coast. But forvarious reasons I wasobliged to modify myplans. My sledging equip-ment was made in thelightest and mostthorough manner,under my own super-vision, and entirelywithout reference tothe use of dogs. Theprincipal items weretwo nine-foot sledges,thirteen inches wide, made of hickory, steel, and hide,on a modified Hudson Bay pattern, and weighing,complete, with drag ropes and lashings, twenty-threepounds each ; small jacketed alcohol stoves, nine-foot double-ended ash alpenstocks with steel pointand chisel, rubber ice-creepers, snow-shoes, snow-skates. Rations consisted of tea, sugar, condensed milk,hard bread, pemmican, cranberry jam, baked beans,Liebig extract, and an experimental mixture of meat,. FREDERICK. Reconnaissance of 1886 7 biscuit, and desiccated potato, put up in two-poundcans by Richard & Robbins, of Dover, Delaware. June 23d I left Ritenbenk with my friend ChristianMaigaard, assistant Governor of Ritenbenk, eightnatives, an oomiak, and two attendant kayaks. Atmidnight we rounded the southern extremity of Arve-prins Island, in Disco Bay, and headed across the mouthof Ikaresak Sound for the entrance of Pakitsok us the clouds were heavy and leaky, and aheadevery depression of the dark mountains and the un-derside of the black cloud canopy above them was litwith the pale, cold glare of the ice-b
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