Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean, Vol. 1 of 3
But while, at distant intervals, one solitary bark is seen braving the perlls of a Polar voyage to in crease the intellectual riches of mankind, every year beholds a ?eet of vessels wandering through the intricate mazes of an ice-clad ocean, and defy ing storms and shipwrecks, in quest of ba/ser wealth; and though a portion of the fearless beings who crowd these fragile fabrics is annually devoted to destruction, their loss excites no mur mur; as if a sacrifice were deemed necessary to propitiate the anger of some deity who guards the Arctic circle.
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