The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-01-20

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NrOpl% AnEIG gEs 1GF%A 2@~ 49,
.urIin' up from IN engines ov an
,cean steamer. They know nothin
w circuses or poIIyticks, an they
never tasted a watermelon nor a
-ipe. juicy peach. Wish I could car
" a few melons an peaches along.
II bet I'd soon be the most popular
nan In "Greenland's Icy Mountains"
But I am carryin' few little things
.rlong fer the children. fer | try toI
spread giadness an Joy wherever /
90.
One ov them New York fellers
ried ter laff at me when / told him
hat | wuz arrangin' ter start on a
rip ter the North Pole, an that |
would go az far az / could by boat
IN then ride Bob the balance ov the
way. What" seq he. "goin' ter
start TO the North Pole in January?
Why a man will freeze right here in
| New York now ".sed he. Better wait
| ill spring. Thar liz whar you air
| nissin' HIT" sed |. "Awl ov the fell
| Iers who hev tried ter reach the
i North Pole hev started in the
| spring-April or May. They had an
idea that summer would open up err
bout the time they'd strike the south
| ern part ov Greenland an that they'd
| find the seaside resorts in full blast
Instead, they found perpetual win
| ter. They soon had TO leave the
| ships stuck fast in the ice an travel
i l1n fan in
vision an small tents by means ov
dog sleighs That worked fairly well
| ~ long azz solid ice wuZ found. But
hey soon found great bodies ov open
| water They had gotten far from
The ships an had neither tools nor
lumber to build boats. Just erbout
hat time they would conclude that
hey didn't care much erbout the
North Pole anyway and would start
back toward the ship. Some ov them
got back, some didn't. | may hev
er resort ter dog sleigh ter finish
he trip. But, If I do, I'll find ice
instead ov water, and that IL why
an tryin' ter reach the Pole in win
ter. A man can walk over ice, but
he cannot wade through ice-cold wa
te, no tellin' how deep; he can sleep
in tent set up on ice. But he can
not sleep in icy water. If I do sue.
coed in reachin' the North Pole hit
, will be due ter the fact that I an
pursuin9 a course or a policy exactly
contrary ter that adopted by the
hundred ov men who hev tried an
, failed. Hit does not pay to copy af
ter men who fail in anythin' They
may be energetic, they may b.
O. brainy; the fact that they did no
G succeed IL evident that they missed
G the keynote, and unless we choos
4 another pathway, make some sort o.
O. 4 change; we cannot hope to accom-
G Dlish great things. There IL no roat
ter the North Pole-no friendly mile
G boards with a hand pointing out tn
way. Hit liz simply vast stretch O.
| water, some land, much ice Som
:. ov the land liz inhabited. But the in
: habitants air people who know bu
u little erbout the world outside O.
their own little frozen naborhoods
try l imagine that the people woul
4 awl suffer from sunstrokes if the
/ had even one spring-like day, a mil
5 winter day, or what the people o
n North Carolina would call a mil
e winter day. Hence you must see tn
folly ov tryin' ter reach the Mort
Pole durin' the summer season.
81 I didn't find any trouble in loadir
i Bob on the "Tunis'' He probabl
: thought we wuz goin' ter Cone
q Island Or some other nearby point
v Poor old Bob! We air both likel
T.. ter meet with some hard sleddin'
II before we get back.
nj So far I hev found the captain ar
crew ov the ''Tunius' awl rite. TIL
Is steamer liz a coast-wise tradin' yes
4 sci, an will buy up cargo ov sea
skins, furs, an the like after goir
az far az possible in Arctic waters
If hev guide luck I may make tn
| dash to the Pole an return in tim
y ter catch the steamer fer the retur
trip. The commander, Captain Ross
>. liz clever, jolly old tar an he wi
do awl he can ter make my trip
- success az far az the steamer goes
Hit will be after I git ter the ice re
- gions when real trouble will com
mence.
e I will not bore your readers wit
l. long letters from this part ov tn
world for az yet thar il nothin' i
site but water, cold, cold, water
We get a glimpse ov land now an
then, snow-covered land But hit i
d. land that liz well known-the Ne1
% England coast an Canadian shores
a We will soon enter the "Northerl
r Ocean, part ov the Atlantic. an
q hit will not be long until we will b
# contendin' with heavy ice, though, s.
far this winter this portion ov tn
4 world heZ not bin so extremely cold
J., But even at this writin' one canno
stay on deck long at time for tn
g wind cuts like knife an feels Xix
hit liz comm from the naborhood o.
q the North Pole. Hit IL strange t.
o me that any one should desire to liv
" or even be willin' ter live, in thes
cold regions. Perhaps they know bu
little or nothin' ov the warmer eli
mates, or, if they do, they wonde
how the people manage to exis
o where hit il so hot at times. Blu
e when git up in the Eskimo countr,