The Open Polar Sea A narrative of a voyage of discovery towards the North pole, in the schooner "United States"

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

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Leaving Smith Sound.--Crossing the North Water.--Meeting the Pack.--The Sea and Air teeming with Life.--Remarkable Refraction.--Reaching Whale Sound.--Surveying in a Boat.--The Sound traced to its Termination.--Meeting Esquimaux at Iteplik.--Habits of the Esquimaux.--Marriage Ceremony.--The Decay of the Tribe.--View of Barden Bay.--Tyndall Glacier

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