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THE
FROZEN NORTH

AN ACCOUNT OF ARCTICEXPLORATION FOR USE IN SCHOOLS

BY

EDITH HORTON

REVISED EDITION

D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS
BOSTON      NEW YORK      CHICAGO

While abundant material has been put before childrenwith the purpose of making them familiar with the historyand industrial development of various parts of the knownworld, very little has been written to inform them of thework which is now being done in the comparatively unknownregions of the north, or of the history of the earlydiscoveries which have led to it.

The importance of the present determined search forthe North Pole is admitted by all thoughtful people, andthe subject is one which must increase in interest until theentire North Frigid Zone is correctly mapped and charted.

Accounts of the pioneers in this work of discovery, ofFranklin and of Kane, and in our own day of Nansenand Peary, are available only in such exhaustive worksas are unsuitable reading for children, and which sometimestax the patience of the adult. Hence the work doneby these intrepid explorers upon the American continentand north of it remains unstudied and unknown.

It is hoped that this book may give our young peoplesufficient knowledge of the subject to enable them to readfarther with intelligence, and that it may also inspirethem with interest in the many expeditions that are beingsent out.

The descriptions of the strange people who inhabitthese cold countries, their dress, their ways of living,their customs, and their manners, all interest the child,[iv]and meet his natural desire to hear about other peoplethan those living in the part of the world about him.

No complete history has been attempted, but rather aseries of sketches which, it is hoped, will enable the readerto appreciate the achievements of the brave men whohave lent and are lending their best efforts to the taskof unlocking and wresting from the Frozen North, thesecrets so necessary for the advancement of science.