FAC-SIMILE OF LAST PAGE OF JOURNAL OF LIEUTENANT- 

 COMMANDER GEO. w. BELONG 



[From DeLong's "Voyage of the Jeannette," Houghton-Mifflin Co.] 



In the six days covered by this historic and awe-inspiring document, 

 ^vlrich was found by Melville, the deaths of four men are recorded. Another 

 was dyiiitf. and but three remained. DeLong, Dr. Ambler and Ah Sam were 

 found dead a thousand yards from the rest of the bodies. The laconic manu- 

 script record of this very extremity of terrible suffering gives only a faint 

 Idea of the frightful privations which these men endured. Not less impressive 

 is the fact that the commander of the expedition faithfully recorded the per- 

 formance of his work until, perhaps, only a few hours before he himself, too, 

 was frozen into an endless sleep. Nothing can more vividly exemplify the 

 courage of the men who have braved the awful perils of the Polar regions 

 than such an insight as this page gives. More than five hundred Arctic expedi- 

 tions have been made. All have endured discomfort, most acute suffering, and 

 many have laid down their lives in efforts to reveal to the world the mystery 

 and terrors of the Polar ice. 



