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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
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ts fell on us,as we stood out into the Strait. At midnight the snowhad ceased, the moon was shining brightly, and theEagle riding easily on the subsiding waves. Comingabout in the morning, we steamed for the Americanwhaling station in Cumberland Sound, where we layat anchor sixteen days. Then on the ist of Novem-ber we hoisted anchor and for twenty-four hoursfought our way out through heavy young ice. Thebrave old ship, staggering and quivering from keelto truck, rammed and fought her way through thetough, rapidly hardening pack, in her struggle toescape imprisonment for the winter. This battle withthe ice was very different from those on the upwardvoyage in June. Then, it was the quick smashingwork of a powerful and accomplished fighter. Now,it was the steady, killing pull of a giant, straining ata load which he could barely move. Two days were passed in the shelter of Field Bay,and then our course was resumed south again, and allnight long, with engines throbbing at full speed, with
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38 Northward over the ** Great Ice every sail black against the southern moon, withblack masts swaying to and fro among the stars, theEao-le went racinor southward across the Strait ofHudson, beneath the blazing curtain of a magnificentaurora. At first the aurora extended, in a brilliant white,waving curtain, north and south across the Strait, itsbottom seemins: to brush the mast-heads. Then thecurtain disappeared, and scurrying wreaths andstreams of pale amorphous light came rushing north-ward over the ship, and, forming in serpentine folds,waved and fluttered, waxed and waned, separated andran together again, with a rapid, fluttering motion,which I can compare only to the rapid opening andshutting of a Japanese fan ; and finally, agitated bysome ghostly whirlwind, till every fold shot green andgold and violet and crimson flames, they broke inflying fragments, and dissolved into faint, luminousclouds. After this, a week of head-winds and storms, driv-ing mists, snow, and a waste of m

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