ЕКІН 
ГОИ еШ EXPEDITION 
toga 1900. 
EH AXAPIER I, 
INTRODUCTORY, 
WniLE man’s knowledge of this Globe has continued 
to increase by the sacrifice of energy terminating 
many lives, the difficulties of obtaining further know- 
ledge of the unknown territories have increased with 
the decrease of the unknown space. 
But centuries have rolled onwards. 
Strengthened by difficulties, man’s philosophy 
has forced the Arctic and Antarctic ice, and reached 
the glittering gates of the Poles where eternity rules 
in stern silence, awaiting the hour when time is ripe 
through the sacrifice of mortals, for man to be 
allowed to follow his philosophy and to enter the 
Polar crystal palaces, and to satisfy his thirst for 
certainty. 
у Expeditions of discovery have set out, and one 
by one they have returned, or one by one they have 
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