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 . h, came near robbingme of my friend. We had pushed the catamaranacross, as was our custom, till it rested at each end onthe opposite edges of the chasm, and I had leapedacross to pull at the same instant that Maigaardpushed. Unfort
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 . h, came near robbingme of my friend. We had pushed the catamaranacross, as was our custom, till it rested at each end onthe opposite edges of the chasm, and I had leapedacross to pull at the same instant that Maigaardpushed. Unfortunately, he tripped as he sprang after,stepped heavily upon the snow arch, it gave way be-neath him, and clinging to the stern of the catamaranhe sank into the crevasse, while the bow shot into theair with a jerk that nearly tore it from my a moment the sledges hung tilted on the lip ofthe chasm, with a mans life hanging on their quiver-ing forms ; then my weight conquered, and Maigaardshead came up to the surface level ; the sledges creptfarther on to the ice till the long arm of the lever wasin my favour, and Maigaard, pale but smiling, swunghimself up on the ice. A little farther on, I came infor a disagreeable though harmless experience. Hav-ing stepped down mid-thigh-deep in a glacier streamto lift the Sweetheart and the Princess Thyra across,. 20 Northward over the Great Ice the current swept my feet from under me, plunged meinto a deep hole just below, then rushed me alongbetween the polished banks with dizzy velocity. Iwas beginning to get irritated at my utter helpless-ness in this stream, scarcely more than six feet wide,or more than five feet deep, when a shallow placegave my spiked sandal a point of application for aspring against the steep bank, up which I scrambled,and ran to help Maigaard, who was barely able tohold the half-submerged sledges against the current. The furrows and crevasses increased in numberand width as we neared the land. After the sun
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