Through Arctic Lapland . LONDON TO VARDO, WITH A FEW EXAMPLES OF HOWPLANS MAY BE CHANGED The wharves of Katherine Dock were black withmany thousands of people, and all their eyes convergedon a little auxiliary barque which was working out ofthe basin under her own gentle steam. The barquecarried a white tub at her mainmast-head, was riggedwith single topsails, bore many white double-endedboats upturned on skids amid-ships, and was decoratedwith sundry other matters which even to the shore eyewould seem strange in London river. Stacked in herwaist were bags of coal, crates, packing cases, a cou
Through Arctic Lapland . LONDON TO VARDO, WITH A FEW EXAMPLES OF HOWPLANS MAY BE CHANGED The wharves of Katherine Dock were black withmany thousands of people, and all their eyes convergedon a little auxiliary barque which was working out ofthe basin under her own gentle steam. The barquecarried a white tub at her mainmast-head, was riggedwith single topsails, bore many white double-endedboats upturned on skids amid-ships, and was decoratedwith sundry other matters which even to the shore eyewould seem strange in London river. Stacked in herwaist were bags of coal, crates, packing cases, a couple ofice-anchors, a tangle of trellis-work sledges, and otherquaint trifles which had not yet been struck below. Any craft more unlike the ordinary conventionaltype of yacht it would have been hard to conceive,and yet the burgee of the Eoyal Thames Yacht Clubfluttered out from above the white crows nest (orfouled the telescope rail, as the case might be) and an 1. 2 Through Arctic Lapland English blue ensign hung clean and unfrayed fromthe mizzen truck, as the mizzen gaff, its more orthodoxstation, had not yet been set up. The barque was already a vessel well known. Asa sealer and whalefisher she had earned fat dividendsfor Dundee owners; as the S. Y. Windward shehad made history, and helped to found the Britishcolony of Elmwood in Franz Josefs Land, and hadbeen iced up for an Arctic winter in a bay at theback of Cape Flora ; and on this trip she was destined(although no one even guessed at it then) to acquirea far more international fame. She was setting outthen from Katherine Dock under the command ofthat old ice-sailor. Captain James Brown, to carryrecruits and supplies to the Jackson-Harmsworthexploring expedition after their second winteramongst the polar ice; and she landed these on thesterile rocks of Franz Josefs Land after a bitterstruggle with the floes, and brought back with her tothe land of champagne and telegraph wires, FrithjofNa
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