. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. </^ « 7^ RubdIyS, of Oma, Khayyim » CAPTAIN BAKTLETT S COPY OF THE E,TJBAIYATOF OMAE KHAYYAM My own constant companion, which I have never tired of reading, was the Kubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. This book I have carried with me everywhere. OUR HOME AT SHIPWRECK CAMP 103 York; on various sealing trips; and now the self-same copy was with me on the Karluk and after-wards on my journey to bring about the rescue ofour ships company. I have read it over and overagain and never see
. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. </^ « 7^ RubdIyS, of Oma, Khayyim » CAPTAIN BAKTLETT S COPY OF THE E,TJBAIYATOF OMAE KHAYYAM My own constant companion, which I have never tired of reading, was the Kubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. This book I have carried with me everywhere. OUR HOME AT SHIPWRECK CAMP 103 York; on various sealing trips; and now the self-same copy was with me on the Karluk and after-wards on my journey to bring about the rescue ofour ships company. I have read it over and overagain and never seem to tire of it. Perhaps it isbecause there is something in its philosophy whichappeals to my own feeling about life and aU my experience and observation leads meto the conclusion that we are to die at the time ap-pointed and not before; this is, I suppose, what isknown as fatalism. On the night of the fourteenth the dogs had afight and one of them was killed. We could illafford to lose him, for dogs were at a premium withus, now. On the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth theweather was threatening; the sky was overcast andthe wind from the
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