The Arctic Problem And Narrative of the Peary Relief Expedition of the Academy
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" A few wooden structures, com- prising a church, the government building or general store, and the residences of the Danish officials, together with a somewhat larger num- ber of green-grown and chimneyed turf huts of the Eskimos, crown a dreary expanse of granite and syenite, over whose surfaces the ice of former ages ploughed its way to the sea. Everywhere the effects of past glaciation are plainly written. No trees of any kind shadow the sunlight from a perpetual summer sun ; no song of bir...d, save the occasional chirp of the snow-bunting and wheatear, responds to the wakening calls of morning. The melancholy bark of a dozen or more of shapely curs — not, however, the awe-inspiring and night-destroy- The Peary Relief Expedition. 93 ing howl of books of travel, but the more sub- dued tones of reality — alone indicates possession of the town. Cheerfulness, save in the bright sunshine which here illumines all nature, seems to have forever deserted the locality. But this first impression almost immediately disappears through closer acquaintance.
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