AN ARCTIC RESCUE 



By Rear Admiral WINFIELD SCOTT SCHLEY, U. S. N. 



HE FASCINATION of the Arctic regions, that 

 great white world, with its dazzling glitter of 

 ice and snow, is indescribable and well-nigh in- 

 explicable. And yet that this fascination exists 

 to an extraordinary degree is indisputable. No 

 one who has ever been there, either as an ex- 

 plorer or a rescuer, but has longed, with all the 

 keen desire of a lover to see his absent sweet- 

 heart, to return once more. 

 Many have returned, in fact the great majority, and those 

 who have been, from force of circumstances, unable to do 

 so, have constantly regretted this inability. All hardships, 

 all privations, are forgotten. Only the pleasurable incidents 



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