78 THE NORTH POLE 



velt survived, I should probably not have my clothes 

 off, or be able to snatch more than an hour or two of 

 sleep at a time, for two or three weeks. Should we 

 lose our ship and have to make our way over the ice 

 southward from anywhere below Lady Franklin Bay, 

 or possibly beyond there — it was good-by to my 

 life's dream and probably to some of my companions. 



