102 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
some one and taking a turn or two on the floor 
when we tipped over the stove. It took some lively 
work to get it set up again. 
The Karluk had a good library and we saved a 
number of books which enabled some of us to catch 
up a little on our reading. We read such books as 
“Wuthering Heights,” “Villette,” and “Jane 
Eyre,” besides more recent novels. My own con¬ 
stant companion, which I have never tired of read¬ 
ing, was the “Rubaiyat” of Omar Khayyam. I 
have a leather-bound copy of this which was given 
me by Charles Arthur Moore, Jr., who, with Harry 
Whitney and a number of other Yale friends of 
his, was with me on a hunting trip in Hudson’s 
Bay on the sealer Algerine in 1901. This book I 
have carried with me everywhere since then, until 
now, if it had not been repaired in various places 
by surgeon’s plaster, I believe it would fall to 
pieces. I have had it with me on voyages to South 
America and other foreign parts on sailing vessels 
when I was serving my years of apprenticeship to 
get my British master’s certificate in 1905; on both 
of my trips with Peary as captain of the Roosevelt; 
on my trip to Europe with Peary after the attain¬ 
ment of the North Pole; on a hunting trip in the 
Arctic on the Boeothic in the summer of 1910, 
when we brought home the musk-oxen and the polar 
bear, Silver King, to the Bronx Park Zoo in New 
