JUVENILE GREENLANDERS 



THE UNFORTUNATE MIRANDA 



By HENRY COLLINS WALSH 



R. F. A. Cook's Arctic Expedition of 

 1894 had no serious design upon the 

 North Pole itself, its main objects 

 being to study the Greenland glacier 

 system; to map out and explore a 

 part of the unknown coast of Mel- 

 ville Bay, and to photograph, sketch 

 and study the Eskimo, as well as the 

 animal and vegetable life to be found in the northern reg- 

 ions. But, as shall be herein recorded, a perverse fate in- 

 terfered sadly with its more serious objects; and as the 

 majority of the members of this numerically powerful ex- 

 pedition had joined it rather for the sake of sport and the 

 gaining of a novel experience, than from any desire of 

 assiduously devoting themselves to Arctic work, it may 

 not inaptly be termed an Arctic excursion. 



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