AN ARCTIC RESCUE 



land archipelago, the most northerly known land in the 

 world, probably the most northerly land. 



Second — The highest latitude yet obtained in the West- 

 ern hemisphere (83 degrees, 50 north). 



Third — The determination of the origin of the so-called 

 Paleocrystic ice (floe berg). 



Lieutenant Peary has declared: "I am after the Pole, 

 because it is the Pole; because it has a value as a test of 

 intelligence, persistence, endurance, determined will, and 

 perhaps courage, qualities characteristic of the highest type 

 of manhood; because I am confident that it can be reached, 

 and because I regard it as a great prize which it is peculiarly 

 fit and appropriate that an American should win." 



Mr. Evelyn Baldwin, at the head of undoubtedly the most 

 superbly equipped expedition that ever started for the 

 North Pole, has said, echoing, in a manner, the words of 

 Peary : 



" I do not want to see any but an American win the 

 honor of the discovery of the North Pole, when so many 

 of our brave countrymen have sacrificed their lives in the 

 effort to attain it. I think America is great enough and 

 progressive enough to have that distinction." 



These two quotations are made particularly to emphasize 

 my previous statement as to the enthusiasm of Arctic ex- 

 plorers, an enthusiasm which knows no bounds. The mag- 

 nificent equipment of the more modern expeditions would 

 have seemed little short of miraculous in the days of 

 Greely. But science has advanced in all directions with 

 gigantic strides in the last decade or two, and has made 

 possible what seemed impossible when Greely set out on 

 his ill-fated expedition. Then, too, experience, dearly 

 bought as it has been, has taught a great deal. What to 

 take to the North, and, what is even more important, what 

 not to take, has been learned, and utilized. 



And now to revert to the real object of this article, my 

 personal experience in the rescue of Greely. 



It is now some eighteen years since I was appointed 

 commander of the fleet sent to the Far North to attempt to 

 find the survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, or 

 as it was better known to the general public, the Greely 



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