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require to be brought from Greenland or 

 Siberia, with men Avho understood the manage- 

 ment of them. 



During the early spring the party would 

 have to exercise their teams, and to get them 

 into as thorough a state of condition and dis- 

 cipline as possible, and, if practicable, they 

 should lay out some depots of provisions as far 

 as they could on their intended route to the 

 north. If they then were to take advantage of 

 the first available fine weather in March or April 

 to start to the north in well-appointed dog- 

 sledges, I entertain very little doubt they could 

 reach the Pole and regain their ship within a 

 month or six weeks from the date of their de- 

 parture, and that without undergoing any 

 hardships and privations exceeding those in- 

 evitable to Arctic exploring expeditions. 



The fourth expedition of Sir Edward Parry, 

 in 1827, was sent out with the view of trying 

 to reach the Pole by sledge-travelling; but, 

 as is well-known, it failed, because they did 

 not winter in Spitzbergen, and they were con- 

 sequently unable to take to their sledge-boats 

 until the 22nd of June, a period at least two 

 months too late, and when the midsummer's 

 sun had loosened and softened the ice, and 



