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Her sisters three and brothers four. 

 Pray tell me, friend, didst e'er thou find 

 A braver spirit, nobler mind, 

 A name more worthy to go down 

 On hist'ry's page with bright renown ? 



Captain Holm recently returned to Copenhagen, 

 after having spent two years and a half exploring 

 the almost unknown region of the east coast of 

 Greenland. Although ten or twelve expeditions 

 have set out for East Greenland in the past two cen- 

 turies, almost all of them in search of the lost 

 Norsemen, who were supposed to have settled there, 

 only one ship ever reached the coast. 



The great ice masses, sometimes hundreds of 

 miles wide, that are perpetually piled up against the 

 shore, have kept explorers from East Greenland 

 long after all Arctic lands were fairly well known. 

 With three assistants, Captain Holm landed at Cape 

 Farewell, and then went north some four hundred 

 miles. He has returned with large collections, rep- 

 resenting the flora, fauna, geology, and anthropology 

 of this hitherto unknown portion of the earth's sur- 

 face. He found in those cold and dismal regions, 

 isolated from the world, a race of people who had 

 never heard, or known, of the great civilized nations 

 of the earth. They seemed to lead happy lives, and 

 live in a communicative way in hamlets. They 

 differ entirely in language, and physical character, 

 from the Esquimaux of West Greenland. — Dcnior- 

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