The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . attendants, dogs and sledges except a single dog-team and one Esquimau servant; then proceeded ontheir northward journey alone. The little partyreached an island in lat. 83° 34 30
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . attendants, dogs and sledges except a single dog-team and one Esquimau servant; then proceeded ontheir northward journey alone. The little partyreached an island in lat. 83° 34 30 N., long. 40°46 30 W., the most northerly point on land or seathat had ever been reached by man. They spentthe 13th and 14th days of May in taking observa-tions, and appropriately gave the name of Lock-wood island. Their two days on the island, whencethey could look out over a mighty waste of snowand ice, were fullyoccupied. A com-plete set of observa-tions, thirty-sixin all,was made. Climbingto the highest eleva-tion in the region,Lockwood unfurledto the breeze little silk flag, and felt proud that on the 15th day of May,1883, it had waved in a higher latitude than any flaghad ever waved before. At the feet of Lockwoqdand his companion, toward the east, there stretched amonster fiord; to the north and west an expanse ofspotless white, desolate in the extreme; toward thesouth a vast panorama of
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