This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...are at an end, I venture humbly to trust that every surviving individual of all the attempts, from Sir Edward Parry and Franklin to the last, may receive this mark of their Sovereign's approbation of the service which they have rendered to our geographical knowledge; as also the combined ability, science, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...are at an end, I venture humbly to trust that every surviving individual of all the attempts, from Sir Edward Parry and Franklin to the last, may receive this mark of their Sovereign's approbation of the service which they have rendered to our geographical knowledge; as also the combined ability, science, perseverance, and almost super-human endurance, by which this secret of centuries has been worked out. No one can value more highly than I do the glorious deeds of our naval and military warriors on the sea and on the land, the hearts of oak, and the minds of iron; which can lay ship by ship, and blow in an enemy's port-holes, or advance against a field, or a crested battery, with an unflinching, unfaltering precision, as if only on parade, and spike its gunners with the bayonet. These are deeds by which the sailors and soldiers of Queen Victoria have rivalled those of the Edwards and the Henries, and proved that they are "the true chips of the old blocks." But is there less of the same true British pluck in those who have as resolutely encountered no less fearful dangers, but without the excitement of a living, taunting opponent, sword to sword, gun to gun? The Northern Navigator has had northern gigantic nature to contend with, and haply to overcome. Icebergs and their avalanches, floes and their crushing resktlessness, unseen rocks, and iron-bound shores, the monotonous and continuous now of danger and endurance, resting unshaken on internal selfsupport. Alone in a froeen world! and cheered only by a consciousness of duty, and, should they not be consigned to a watery or an urn known grave, the possible distant hope that Providence might guide their safe return once more to dear old England, and the then certainty of a joyful...
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