Identifier: northwardovergre001pear (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920
Subjects: Eskimos
Publisher: New York, NY : F.A. Stokes Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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AT THE SNOW VILLAGE. Cape Cleveland, I was again very forcibly impressedwith the great similarity between the northern shoreof Herbert Island and the south-eastern shore ofMcCormick Bay, and the sharply marked differenceof character between Herbert and NorthumberlandIslands, Northumberland is evidently a part of thesame dark granite formation that walls RobertsonBay in towering grandeur, while Herbert Island is apart of the same crumbling, disintegrated sandstoneand drift formation which reaches from Cape Cleve-land to Bowdoin Bay in Murchison Sound.
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Around Inglefield Gulf by Sledge 251 At Cape Cleveland we separated, Panikpa with-his equipage keeping along the beaten path whichwound away through the bergs to the deserted igloosof Kiaktoksuami, under the vertical walls of the east-ern end of Herbert Island, while I, with the rest ofthe party, branched out on a new road, an air-linefor the channel between Herbert and Northumber-land Islands. A short distance away from CapeCleveland we encountered disagreeable going in theshape of a broad zone of snow with underlying water,caused, undoubtedly, by the overflow from the tidalcrack stretching from Cape Cleveland in the directionof Cape Robertson. After the first few steps in thefreezing slush, Mrs. Peary, Gibson, and myself slippedon our snow-shoes, and as the sledges easily keptupon the surface of the snow, this threw the bruntof the disagreeable situation upon Kyo and the poordogs, who struggled and floundered through the arcticmorass, until at last we reached dry snow beyond it. Aft

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