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 . eat Ice curled, and I knew that I was bringing back fromone of the longest of sledge journeys, with the heavi-est of loads and a minimum of food, a team of dogsactually in good condition. Once more we lightened our load to the lowe
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 . eat Ice curled, and I knew that I was bringing back fromone of the longest of sledge journeys, with the heavi-est of loads and a minimum of food, a team of dogsactually in good condition. Once more we lightened our load to the lowestlimit, looked carefullyto the lashines of thesledge, and put in orderour equipment. Wewere now east of thebasin of HumboldtGlacier. Nearly twohundred miles away wasour goal, and this wholestretch must be coveredrapidly. We were stillout of siofht of land, buta few days more wouldbrinof us within viewof the familiar land-scape bordering WhaleSound. On July 31st andAugust ist, we travelledover the rough, frozensurface without aid ofsnow-shoes or ski. Wepassed many snow hum-mocks, some of themfifty feet high, wherethe drift had settledaround some protruding bit of ice and built snow-hills on the plain. Sast7ugi were also surface was sloping perceptibly towards thewestern sea. Then we travelled for miles withoutseeing a single hummock or A BEACON. Eight Thousand Feet above the Sea 379 We were making express speed to Red Cliff when,on August 2d, we neared the divide between the KaneBasin and the Whale-Sound region. For five hourson that day we climbed diagonally a very regularbut gradual ascent; and at seven oclock on the morn-ine of August ^d we reached the summit, trudo;ed onsome miles, and camped in sight of familiar land, thefirst we had seen since we left the region of In-dependence Bay. The wind blew fresh from thesouth-east, and all that forenoon and the previousafternoon my dogs had been continually sniffing theair, their keen noses evidently detect
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