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Title : The American Museum journal Identifier : americanmuseumjo15amer ( find matches ) Year : c1900-(1918) ( c190s ) Authors : American Museum of Natural History Subjects : Natural history Publisher : New York : American Museum of Natural History Contributing Library : American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor : Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page : Book Viewer About This Book : Catalog Entry View All Images : All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: THE STEFANSSON EXPEDITION OF 1913 TO 1915 By Major General A. W. Greely, United States Army THE history of polar expeditions equals, relatively speaking, that of any other phase of explora- tion in its romantic episodes of unex- pected and thrilling character. The retreat of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane across Melville Bay, the ice-drift of Captain George E. Tyson of eighteen hundred miles, the boat journey of Admiral George T. Melville to the Lena Delta, and the rescue of the shipwrecked American whalers at Point Barrow by Lieutenants D. H. Jarvis and E. P. Bertholf, are marvelous successes of American adventurers which every red- blooded individual reads with rapt at- tention and stirred emotions. It seems surprising that those who control the development of the minds of the rising generation do not supplant trashy and Text Appearing After Image: urttsy of the A nu it Society The new land in 77° 43' N. latitude and 115° 4.3' W. longitude, was discovered on June 18, 191.5. It was explored for three days only and through one hundred miles of coast only, but from an elevation of 2000 feet twenty miles inland, mountains were seen at least fifty miles farther,in all directions to the north and east (the land was low to the west). The route traveled as shown on the map is of course generalized and the distances fall far short of the actual distances covered, which were made longer and indirect because of drift due to contrary winds and currents 339 Note About Images
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