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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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0 6 Northward over the Great Ice and, with lee-rail under water, lay to. A little later,the lee side was swept clear of boats, davits, andstanchions ; then a vicious sea stove the weather bul-warks, and water came pouring down the companion-way, setting everything in the cabin afloat. Justbefore dark, a piercing cry of Ice ! came from thelookout forward, and there, in the trough ahead, wal-lowed a huge blue, nearly submerged mass. As theEagle plunged down upon it, it seemed from the bridgeas if her jib-boom cleared by scarcely a foot, then sheanswered her helm, fell off, and sheered by it. For amoment, hurled aloft on the crest of a wave, it swunghigh above her quarter as she scraped past, then a bub-bling whirlpool, and a glimmer of blue beneath theEagle s stern, showed where it had plunged beneaththe surface. Then the blackest of nights 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 subsidi

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