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 . UP THE RAVINE. feeding them once a day at the conclusion of themarch, and attaching them to the sledges in themorning—was my personal charge. When the marchcommenced, the dogs were in Astriips charge asdriver until we camped at nig
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 . UP THE RAVINE. feeding them once a day at the conclusion of themarch, and attaching them to the sledges in themorning—was my personal charge. When the marchcommenced, the dogs were in Astriips charge asdriver until we camped at night, except on occasionswhen, to relieve the wearying monotony, we alter-nated during the march, first one and then the othersetting the course and driving the dogs. Astrup alwaysbuilt the snow shelter, or kitchen, as we called it. The The White March 283 duties of cook were taken by each of us on alternatedays, and these duties covered the entire time at acamp. The man on duty as cook slept in the kitchenand was always prepared to turn out at an instantsnotice to capture any dog that had broken one off duty slept under the sledge cover in thelee of the sledge. We made but little use of oursleeping-bags, and at the end of three weeks threw. FIRST IGLOO ON THE ICE-CAP. Sun-Glacier Gorge in Background. them away. It is perhaps needless to say we didnot disrobe on retiring. Our preparations for sleep were very simple. Assoon as supper was disposed of, we rubbed our faceswith vaseline to ease the intense burning from thesun and wind, applied a drop of opium solution to oureyes to relieve the pain from the blinding snow-glare,tied something over them to exclude the light, closedall openings in our fur clothing, and then lay down. 284 Northward over the Great Ice Invariably in the morning we found the dogs in asorry tangle, and some time would be required toloosen the Gordian knot in which they had involvedtheir traces. When the animals set earnestly towork to tangle these
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