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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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yselfwith many odds and ends that were likely to add toour comfort during the winter night. Mrs. Pearydecorated our room with flags, producing quite apretty effect. The boys began making sledges fromtimber I had brought alonof, odometers to measurethe distance travelled on our coming sledge journeys,and pumps for use in the whale-boats during the nextsummers homeward voyage ; and I spent consider-able time putting in order my little arsenal, the use-fulness of which had become somewhat impairedthrough accidents. CHAPTER V. THROUGH THE GREAT NIGHT. My Priceless Deerskins—First Impressions of the Winter Night—OurThanksgiving Dinner—The Natives Vanquished in Feats of Strength— Open the Door the Common Cry at Red Cliff—Piblockto—DailyRoutine—Recording the Arctic Tide—Experiments with Sledges andSleeping-Bags—Arctic Literature—Our Busy Native Seamstresses—Taking Flash-Light Photographs—Modesty of the Native Women—Brilliant and Beautiful Winter Days—Ski Practice.
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AHNGODOBLAHO. CHAPTER V. THROUGH THE GREAT NIGHT.

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