Category: Biographies
The next day was to be a very interesting one. In the first place the Commander was coming in the evening, and secondly the cook was arriving. The time-honored tradition on shipboard is that next in importance to the captain comes the cook. My stomach was in full accord with t...
The next day was to be a very interesting one. In the first place the Commander was coming in the evening, and secondly the cook was arriving. The time-honored tradition on ship...
2. CHAPTER IIIAt noon the next day, Sunday, June 21st, we put to sea from the last outpost of the United States that we should see until our return. As we circled the islands, a fishing boat...
3. CHAPTER IVDr. Grenfell’s staff were down at the dock to welcome us, and they soon made us realize that American hospitality is the same the world around. Although Labrador is English terr...
4. CHAPTER VIt was with regret that at dawn on the day following we bade farewell to Battle Harbor and the hospitable Grenfell workers and squared away for Hopedale whence we would make the...
5. CHAPTER VIHopedale, with the exception of Makkovik, which harbors only two families, is the southernmost settlement of the Eskimos and one of the principal posts of the Moravian missions....
6. CHAPTER VIINo sooner were we at anchor in Hopedale Harbor than I noticed the approach of several large boats filled with strange-looking, brown folk, different from any I had ever before s...
7. CHAPTER VIIIAfter enduring a week of insufficient tides and diabolical attacks on the part of the mosquitoes, we at last managed to put in place the new propeller. What a sigh of relief we...
8. CHAPTER IXAfter we had been in port a good part of the morning, the _Peary_ hoisted anchor and started towards the mouth of the harbor, and we needs must follow suit. In the meantime we h...
9. CHAPTER XEarly on the morning of August 1st, we broke through the last of the pack of Cape York and laid our course around the shore ice as yet unbroken from the Cape. In a short time we...
10. CHAPTER XIWhile we were in Etah, Dr. Koelz, the expedition’s naturalist, decided that he would like to travel a few miles up the Greenland shore to collect specimens. As he needed someone...
11. CHAPTER XIIThe formation of new ice on the surface of Etah Fiord grimly brought home to us the dread reality that the relentless Arctic winter was now all but upon us. To flee before this...
12. CHAPTER XIIIAfter several days of the gay and intimate life of this “Venice of the North,” so-called because of its many waterways and numerous islands, and the Latin temperament of its inh...