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William Martin Sir Conway. With ski & sledge over Arctic glaciers
With ski & sledge over Arctic glaciers
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. KLAAS BILLEN BAY
CHAPTER II. UP THE NORDENSKIÖLD GLACIER
CHAPTER III. BACK TO KLAAS BILLEN BAY
CHAPTER IV. BY WATER TO KINGS BAY
CHAPTER V. THE KING’S HIGHWAY
CHAPTER VI. OSBORNE GLACIER AND PRETENDER PASS
CHAPTER VII. THE SPITSBERGEN DOLOMITES
CHAPTER VIII. RETURN TO KINGS BAY
CHAPTER IX. KINGS BAY TO HORN SOUND
CHAPTER X. ASCENT OF MOUNT HEDGEHOG
CHAPTER XI. ON THE USE OF SKI
CHAPTER XII. GEOGRAPHICAL RESULTS
APPENDIX
Footnote
INDEX
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William Martin Sir Conway
Published by Good Press, 2021
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At high tide we rowed our boat round as near to the foot of the glacier as we dared go, and pitched our final camp by the stream already mentioned. It was nearly a mile from the foot of the easiest line of approach up the moraine on to the surface of the glacier. We hauled our heavy boat up high and dry with great toil, assembled in our larger tent the baggage we were going to leave behind, arranged the loads for our two sledges, and, in repeated journeys, laboriously dragged and carried them over bog and stones to the foot of the steep moraine, greatly disturbing the minds of a number of terns, who had their nests on the stony ground near the channels of the river. They swooped almost on to our heads, and hovered, screaming frightfully, not more than a yard out of reach. No bird that flies has a more frail or graceful appearance than a tern. When the sun shines on them as they hover amongst the floating ice-blocks they seem the very incarnation of whatsoever is purest, gentlest, and most fair. But there is in every tern the pugnacity of a bargee and the fractiousness of seven swearing fishwives. They are everlastingly at war with the skuas and the kittiwakes, and they always seem to come off best in an encounter. We, at any rate, were not sorry to quit their ground and leave them glorying over our retreat.
