ON THE ROOSEVELT 
poor satisfaction to those that he left behind 
that his grave is the northern-most grave on 
the earth; but they reahze that the sacrifice 
was not made in vain, for it was due to him 
that those who followed were able to keep the 
trail and reach the land again. The foolish 
boys, in accordance with Esquimo tradition, 
had unloaded all of Prof. Marvin's personal 
effects on the ice, so that his spirit should not 
follow them, and they hurried on back to land 
and to the ship, where they told their sad story. 
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