4 FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE NORTH [July 



of it all came a cheery peep from the sunlit skylight — a 

 golden canary leaving his pleasant New York home for 

 bleak and barren Labrador, a gift to the wife of a mis- 

 sionary at Hopedale. 



The personnel is the heart of an expedition, which 

 means its health and energy and life. One bit of dis- 

 loyalty, one leaky valve, may impair the whole system. 

 Conditions under which one lives in the far North are 

 very abnormal — far away from the touch of the human- 

 izing elements of civilization; from the political and 

 international laws which govern man in his relations 

 with his fellow-men; from the comforts of home; from 

 the loving kindness of relatives and friends; from the 

 companionship which man craves; from the hum and 

 activity of a busy world; from the news and progress of 

 the day. Away from the ever-recurring sunlight days 

 of the homeland, he goes north to plunge into the 

 shadows and darkness of the long, cold winter; and then 

 the dark nights which man should have for sleep give 

 way before the continual brightness of a revolving sun. 



The men had been carefully selected. All were young, 

 energetic, and enthusiastic. The roster read: 



W. Elmer Ekblaw, A.B., A.M., University of Illinois. 

 Geologist and botanist. Born March 10, 1882, Ran- 

 toul, Illinois. Instructor, University of Illinois, 1910-13. 



Maurice Cole Tanquary, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. Zoologist. Born November 26, 

 1881, Lawrenceville, Illinois. Assistant in entomology. 

 University of Illinois, 1907-12. Instructor in entomol- 

 ogy, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1912-15. 



Harrison J. Hunt, A.B., 1902, M.D., 1905, Bowdoin. 

 Born, Brewer, Maine, 1879. Captain Varsity track and 

 football teams. 



