THE LAST CKUISE OF THE MIRANDA. 



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States in advance of the Peary party. A search was to be 

 undertaken for the young Swedish explorers, Bjorling and 

 Kallestenius, who had boldly skoaled to the northward in a 

 crazy kind of a tub, and passed into the great Arctic silences, 

 never to be heard 

 of again. During 

 this search a part 

 of the unknown 

 coast of Elles- 

 mere Land was 

 to be explored. 

 Then the great 

 game to be found 

 in the Arctic re- 

 gions, such as 

 polar bear, wal- 

 rus, reindeer, 

 seal, caribou, etc., 

 attracted quite a 

 number of sports- 

 men to the ex- 

 pedition, among 

 them such well- 

 known hunters as 

 Professor L. L. 

 Dyche, of the Kansas State University, whose Western 

 hunting experiences are related in " Camp Fires of a Natural- 

 ist;" E. A. Mcllhenny, and Robert D. Perry. 



The officers of the expedition were : Dr. Frederick A. 

 Cook, commander and organizer of the expedition ; Professor 

 William H. Brewer, of Yale ; Professor G. Frederick Wright, 

 of Oberlin College, and Professor B. C. Jillson, of Pittsburg, 

 geologists ; Professor L. L. Dyche, Kansas State University, 

 zoologist ; E. A. Mcllhenny, of Louisiana, ornithologist ; 



DR. FREDERICK A. COOK. 



