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 . M Y Arctic work com-prises : 1st. A summerand reconnais-Greeniand voyagesance of theInland Ice, i 2d. A thirteen-monthssojourn in NorthernGreenland, including atwelve-hundred-milesledge journey across theice-cap, and
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 . M Y Arctic work com-prises : 1st. A summerand reconnais-Greeniand voyagesance of theInland Ice, i 2d. A thirteen-monthssojourn in NorthernGreenland, including atwelve-hundred-milesledge journey across theice-cap, and the determin-ation of the insularity of Greenland, 1891-92. jd. A twenty-five-months stay in North Greenland,including a second twelve-hundred-mile sledge jour-ney across the ice-cap, the completion of the studyof the Whale-Sound natives, a detail survey of thatregion, and the discovery of the great Cape-Yorkmeteorites, 1893-95. 4th. Summer voyages in 1896 and 1897, includingthe securing of the last and the largest of the greatCape-York meteorites, the 90-ton mass. Before taking up these expeditions in their order, Iwill attempt to bring home to the reader a realisticconception of what the land which has been the sceneof action is actually like. Stretching southward over the swelling bosom ofthe earth, Greenland is the pendent brooch in the XXX Introduction glittering nec
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