. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. e, besides more recent novels. My own con-stant companion, which I have never tired of read-ing, was the Rubaiyat of Omar Khaj^^am. Ihave a leather-bound copy of this which was givenme by Charles Arthur Moore, Jr., who, with HarryWhitney and a number of other Yale friends ofhis, was with me on a hunting trip in HudsonsBay on the sealer Algerine in 1901. This book Ihave carried with me everywhere since then, untilnow, if it had not been repaired in various placesby surgeons plaster, I bel
. The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-16. e, besides more recent novels. My own con-stant companion, which I have never tired of read-ing, was the Rubaiyat of Omar Khaj^^am. Ihave a leather-bound copy of this which was givenme by Charles Arthur Moore, Jr., who, with HarryWhitney and a number of other Yale friends ofhis, was with me on a hunting trip in HudsonsBay on the sealer Algerine in 1901. This book Ihave carried with me everywhere since then, untilnow, if it had not been repaired in various placesby surgeons plaster, I believe it would fall topieces. I have had it with me on voyages to SouthAmerica and other foreign parts on sailing vesselswhen I was serving my years of apprenticeship toget my British masters certificate in 1905; on bothof my trips with Peary as captain of the Roosevelt;on my trip to Europe with Peary after the attain-ment of the North Pole; on a hunting trip in theArctic on the Boeothic in the summer of 1910,when we brought home the musk-oxen and the polarbear, Silver King, to the Bronx Park Zoo in New. </^ « 7^ RubdIyS, of Oma, Khayyim »iki-fc.
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