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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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CHAPTER XII. NORTHERNMOST GREENLAND. We Set out for the Rkd Hills and Valleys—Our Dogs Glad toReach Terra Firma—Very Rough Travelling over the Sharp Stones—Sighting Musk-Oxen at Last—I Kill Two of the Animals andCapturi-. One Alive—A Feast of Musk-Ox Steaks—The Last Summitbetween us and the Sea—A Glorious Panorama as we Emerge uponA Giant Cliff—An Ice-Covered Bay 3800 Feet below us—Eastwardthe Arctic Sea Expands to the Horizon—We had Traced the NorthCoast of the Mainland—The Bluffs and Channels Farther North—A Never-to-be-Forgotti-.\ Fourth of July.
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CHAPTER XII. NORTHERNMOST GREENLAND.

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