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Relics of Franklin's Polar Voyage

men, when they perished in the far bravery, and the voyages of the brave men who have risked, and, in some Notwithstanding the disastrous results instances, have lost their lives in the and the very meagre gains which have desolate realms of snow, challenge that hitherto attended Polar expeditions, there admiration. The names of Kane, Hall, are adventurous spirits who are eager to Hayes, Greeley and many others of equal make further trials. They are dazzled renown are brilliant in the annals of with the undertaking in proportion to the Arctic discovery. In company with them perils. If there were no dangers they we find ourselves among mountains of would not wish to explore the realms of ice; gazing on vast tracts of wintry desa THE "JEANNETTE" CRUSHED BY IMMENSE ICEBERGS, 6 (129) lation; watching the white bear, the seal atoms, crawling with dogs and disabled and walrus in their native haunts; shiver-men over wastes of snow and ice, we ing with the dreadful cold that reigns there escape as from death, thankful for a without a summer; and, pinched, half- miraculous deliverance. They are lucky frozen, starved, wrecked, ship ground to who return from Polar voyages.