. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. Winter Routine livinj^ hronzL's. Here a woman nursinj^ her bain, there another mendins^ a kamik. perhajis a third tend- intj^ the lamp, and a
. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : 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. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. Winter Routine livinj^ hronzL's. Here a woman nursinj^ her bain, there another mendins^ a kamik. perhajis a third tend- intj^ the lamp, and another washin^r towels and stock- inj^^s for us. Perched on the edL,^e of a bunk, their feet swinL;inL( over the ed^^e, two girls, guying, in audible asides, a thirtl who, stretched on the cover of the biscuit cask, took their per- sonal remarks with smiling good-humour. Near the lamp a man fashioning ivory toggles for doLT-harnesses from a wal- rus tusk ; mixed up about his feet two boys pulling fingers to see who was the stronger ; and in the warmest corner near the stove two old men gossiping volubly, cracking jokes at each other's expense, and empha- sising specially good hits by friendly pokes in the ribs. The "Great Night," as well as the vagaries of the sun, is one of the comni' n phenomena of the Arctic regions in regard to which there exist variant and erroneous ideas. Though the long night be- gins technically on the day when the sun sinks for the last time below the horizon, yet he is still so little below the south- ern horizon at noon of each da\' for some time longer, that there are several hours of twilight, practicalK' equivalent to daylight, in the middle of the day. Hut this twilight raj)i(.ll\- pales and fades, ami tluMi the. FLASH-LIGHT STUDY. i ! h <fj. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly r
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