vi PREFACE 



the sunshine is continuous during the summer, the 

 plants within the Circle sleep as in the night time, 

 their sleeping leaves telling the traveller that midnight 

 is at hand. 



Men have made up their minds to reach the Pole, 

 and thither they will go. What they will find when 

 they get there may not promise to be much, but what 

 they have found round about it has been enough to 

 influence considerably the history of the world. 



W. J. G. 



July, 1907. 



