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ESKIMO ENCAMPMENT, KING WILLIAMS LAND 



Englishmen ; and let us not forget that 

 young, elegant and plucky Duke of the 

 Abruzzi, a worthy compatriot of Colum- 

 bus and Vespucci, and who was recently 

 in your midst. Some new expedition led 

 through air or through water, by some, 

 maybe, among the men present here to- 

 night, will certainly in the near future 

 gain the first sight of the long-sought 

 North Pole. We traveled mainly in 

 other lands ; and many parts of Asia. 

 Africa, and South America, owing to 

 French travelers, are no longer a blank 

 on the map, and "Timbuctu, the mys- 

 terious," has no longer any mystery. 



Considering so many expeditions un- 

 dertaken for the sake of mankind at large 

 by men from every land, undeterred by 

 any clanger, one goes back in thought to 

 the time when mythical Saint B randan, 

 the Celtic Saint, started in his leather 

 boat across the great ocean-sea to dis- 

 cover, and actually did discover, the 

 island of Paradise. 



Captain Amundsen and his peers, 

 make, in their way, somewhat similar 



journeys. The Geographic Society's 

 guest tonight will not, I am sure, con- 

 tradict me when I say that, amid the ice, 

 while enduring hard privations and suf- 

 ferings, he too has discovered the island 

 of Paradise ; for to men of heart Para- 

 dise is nothing else than duty fulfilled. 



THE TOASTMASTER 



Some years ago there appeared in 

 public print a book on American institu- 

 tions written by a foreigner. Other for- 

 eigners, especially English, had been to 

 this country. They had remained the 

 length of time necessary for the arrival 

 and departure of a ship, and then had 

 written works on America and American 

 customs ; so when this publication on the 

 political conditions of America first ap- 

 peared it was thought to be a work of the 

 same superficial character as those that 

 had preceded it. But as it was read it 

 awakened interest ; as it was studied it 

 commanded admiration, and in course of 

 time Bryce's "American Commonwealth" 

 became the standard text-book on the po- 

 litical institutions of this countrv. It was 



