. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . is before the reader in this first given to the world, it excited an intense interest and drewforth universal eulogy. AH classes were penetrated and touched bythe story so simply, so modestly, so eloquently told. Autograph let-ters from the tnost eminent names in every walk of life were written inits praise. Medals and other costly testimonials were sent by the Queenof England, by different Legislatures in our own
. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . is before the reader in this first given to the world, it excited an intense interest and drewforth universal eulogy. AH classes were penetrated and touched bythe story so simply, so modestly, so eloquently told. Autograph let-ters from the tnost eminent names in every walk of life were written inits praise. Medals and other costly testimonials were sent by the Queenof England, by different Legislatures in our own country, and by scien-tific associations throughout the world. Tlic mere casual notices ofthe press, as collected by his friend Mr. Childs, the publisher, fill sev-eral albums of folio size. ^ But the recipient of these nonors was not destined himself long toenjoy them. To the seeds of former diseases never fully eradicated,had been added that terrible scourge of Arctic life, the scurvy, together * Paper on the Exploration of the North Polar Rcpcion, road before tlie RoyalGeographical Society, Jan. 23d, 18G5, by Captain Sherard Osborne, R. N., C. B. milf ,1!l .ft. LIFE OF DR. KANE. 11 ?with the exhausting Hterary labors incident to the publication of thisnarrative. Entirely underestimating those labors, (of which indeed butfew can form an adequate conception,) he had been quite too thought-less of the claims of a body he had so long been accustomed to subjectto his purpose, and only awoke to a discovery of the error when it wastoo late. With this melancholy conviction, he announced the comple-tion of the work to a friend in the modest and touching sentence :— The book, poor as it is, has been my coffin. He left the country for England under a presentiment that he shouldnever return. For the first time in his life, departure was shaded withforeboding. It was indeed an alarming symptom to find that ironnerve which hitherto had sustained him under shocks apparently notless sever
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