606 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



never to have cast eyes even upon that horrible wilderness of 

 woeful destitution, and all nature had apparently shunned the 

 bleak expanse. Yet here was one of God's noblest creatures, 

 battling the fiercest tide of misery, with death only for companion- 



DEATH OF SERGEANT RICE. 



ship and lost ! Poor Fredericks camped out alone that night, 

 and stayed beside his dead comrade until he could dig a grave in 

 the frozen earth with his hatchet, in which he interred with rev- 

 erent respect the remains of a brave man, a noble friend, and a 

 generous brother. 



