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 . KARNAH GLACIER. Typical Glacier and Delta, Southern Shore of Red-Cliff Peninsula. Back of these deltas and a low fore-shore whichconnects them, rises a series of rather rolling summits, 39° Northward over the Great Ice down the rav
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 . KARNAH GLACIER. Typical Glacier and Delta, Southern Shore of Red-Cliff Peninsula. Back of these deltas and a low fore-shore whichconnects them, rises a series of rather rolling summits, 39° Northward over the Great Ice down the ravines between which protrude hangingglaciers, tongues of the central ice-cap of the day, in spite of the portent of the dark cloudsoverhead, was not disagreeable; gulf and sound werefree of sheet-ice, only occasional bergs and fragmentsof beres breaking the evenness of the waves whichruffled the surface of the water, and to me, who hadseen little of the country during the previous sum-mer, and who for the immediately preceding three. KARNAH. months had seen nothing but the blinding glare ofthe Great Ice, the weather, the water, the warmth ofcolouring of the shores, barren as they were, seemedalmost tropical. Numerous fragments of disruptedbergs, grounded along the beach by the falling tide,looked from the boat almost like flocks of grazingsheep. At Karnah, the shore forms an angle, a noisy gla-cial river comes bounding down from the rocks, and Boat Voyage into Inglefield Gulf 391 east of it the character of the shore changes com-pletely. The deltas, the low fore-shore, and the roll-ing mountains give place to a line of majestic sand-stone cliffs which rise sheer from the water. It was now late in the evening:, and landing at thepoint we pitched our tent within ^ ] the clamour of I the glacial river, Jjk A and prepared for ^^^mm. .^ttftt our first nio^hts ^^Hi^^^^H outing. From ^^^^^^^^H this Karnah .^H^^^^^^^H point, the pro- ^^tB^^^^^^^M file of the cliffs Jh^H^^
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