BUEKE AND WILLS, THE 

 EXPLOEEES. 



HERE is a class of men who are generally more 

 deserving of our gratitude than we are appar- 

 ently disposed to admit, at least in any practical way. 



I mean those self-denying, adventurous men, pio- 

 neers and explorers, who, taking their lives in their 

 hands, go forth to grapple with difficulties they know 

 not what, that they may open the way for civilization, 

 for settlement of uninhabited regions, for the amelior- 

 ation of the condition of the savage, or to extend the 

 field of scientific and Christian knowledge. Perhaps 

 fully fifty per cent, or more of these courageous men 

 pay the penalty with their lives. Who can help admir- 

 ing the spirit of such men as Sir John Franklin, and 

 Kane, and Rae, and others who have penetrated the 

 frozen regions about and beyond the Arctic circle ? 



Or Speke, and Livingstone and Stanley, who have 

 braved difficulties quite as great under the scorching 

 rays of the equatorial sun ? 



Passing over these vast Atlantic and Pacific seas, in 

 ships so well fitted up for the comfort of passengers, 



