402 FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE NORTH 



twenty-four-hour sun the Arctic plants, nearly all like 

 those of our early spring, come to rapid maturity. 



Though all these plants grow rather luxuriantly about 

 our lodge, they scarcely begin to hide the nakedness of 

 the rugged slopes and rocky cliffs and plateaus; yet to 

 us who lived among them for four years they are as 

 beautiful and dear as our trees and shrubs and grasses 

 and flowers of the Southland. They grow bravely in the 

 face of almost impossible conditions, courageous guar- 

 dians of life in the cold, killing North. 



