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 . ched a more gently slop-ing part of the lower I thought we were safe,but frequent patches of bare ice,from which the last light snow hadbeen blown, gave the sledge such ve-locity that I was glad to apply the brakeagain.
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 . ched a more gently slop-ing part of the lower I thought we were safe,but frequent patches of bare ice,from which the last light snow hadbeen blown, gave the sledge such ve-locity that I was glad to apply the brakeagain. Even then, we travelled like the wind, the dogsat their liveliest gallop, unable to keep the tracesstraight. Suddenly, the iron point of my alpenstockbroke short off, and in a moment the sides of thevalley became a roaring mist, and the poor dogs, 2i8 Northward over the Great Ice howling and yelping, were rolling and boundingthrouorh the air in tow of the shooting sledcre. I did my best to make the end of my alpenstockbite into the snow, and just as everything was becom-ing invisible in our mad rush, I succeeded, with theresult of hurling Matt, who was behind me, over myhead upon the snow in front, and bringing the poordogs up with a thump and a yelp in a breathless massagainst the upstanders. After this, we went on morecarefully and soon reached the
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