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 . he loomed uplike a Colossus. Nowdingyah had a moustache andgoatee, and was clad in a fox-skin jumper and bear-skin trousers. My visitor seemed to be favourably im-pressed with what he saw, and next day, accompaniedby Ikwa, he haste
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 . he loomed uplike a Colossus. Nowdingyah had a moustache andgoatee, and was clad in a fox-skin jumper and bear-skin trousers. My visitor seemed to be favourably im-pressed with what he saw, and next day, accompaniedby Ikwa, he hastened away to spread the news amonghis neighbours ; and only three twilight days elapsedbefore Nowdingyah returned, bringing with him twofellow tribesmen, Kahunah and Arrotoksuah, with theirsledges and six dogs. The latter was an old man, whoseplacid, benign face, and throat fringe of white bear-skin elicited from my irreverent young men the nick-name by which he was always afterwards known, Horace Greeley. They soon returned to their Boat and Sledge Trips 151 igloos to the north-westward, but on October 25th,Kahunah with his wife and three children and Arro-toksuah with his wife and one child came over theice to me with two sledges and only two dogs, theentire party, excepting the infant, walking. I per-mitted the newcomers to sleep on the floor of THE FIVE-GLACIER-VALLEY Oct. iSth. We found that Horace Greeleys wife was acharacter. Gaunt and tall in figure, brown and wrin-kled of face, she went into hysterics of laughter atthe sight of Mrs. Peary, and when seated beside thestove at Red Cliff, she fell into such a paroxysm ofvolubility, regardless of the fact that none of us un-derstood a word she was saying, that she at once 152 Northward over the Great Ice received the endearing name of Sairey old couple had been at Polaris House and stillpossessed some articles given them by members ofDr. Halls party. Among these were a sextant boxand a st
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