Arctic explorations- the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55 (1856) (14804922643)

Identifier: arcticexploratio01kane (find matches)
Title: Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857
Subjects: Grinnell Expedition 1853-1855)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Childs & Peterson (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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PORTRAIT OF HANS. very moderate wages, I should leave a couple of barrelsof bread and fifty-two pounds of pork with his mother;and I became munificent in his eyes when I added thegift of a rifle and a new kayak. We found him A^eryuseful; our dogs required his services as a caterer, a.ndour oA^ai table was more than once dependent on hisenergies. : ,
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L I C n T E N F E L S. 25 No one can know so well as an Arctic voyager thevalue of foresight. My conscience has often called forthe exercise of it, but my habits make it an effort. Ican hardly claim to be provident, either by impulse oreducation. Yet, for some of the deficiencies of ouroutfit I ought not, perhaps, to hold myself responsible.Our stock of fresh meats was too small, and we hadno preserved vegetables: but my personal means werelimited; and I could not press more severely than astrict necessity exacted upon the unquestioning libe-rality of my friends. While we were beating out of the fiord of Fisker-naes, I had an opportunity of visiting Lichtenfels, theancient seat of the Greenland congregations, and oneof the three Moravian settlements. I had read muchof the history of its founders; and it was with feelingsalmost of devotion, that I drew near the scene theirlabors had consecrated.^^) As we rowed into the shadow of its rock-embayedcove, every thing was so desolate and sti