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Show Tlio Mcetliif of Mrulrnant l'ciry. Bcarcoly bad the eeparatlon been arranged boforeasbout burst upon the lproaoblug midnight hour wutcb made everybody's heart tbrob to Its lulleit. I'arotl to tlio northwettwsrd, jver preclroly the spit tbnt hud been uleoled for tne placing ol tbe second tuft, Kntrlklu'a clear vision had delected de-lected a black speck that was foreign to ihu Greenland I en. There was no l,i ed to conjecture what It meant: "It la u man, ll Is moving," broso out almost simultaneously from auvrral lips, and It was Immediately realized tuat tlio explorera of whom wo wero lu quest were retumlug victoriously homeward. An instant liter a second speck (otned the flrtt, Aiid then a long black object, easily niaolvcd by my Ueld-glais Into a sledge with dogs In barillas, completed tbe itrange vision of life upon the Uretn laud Ice, Cliiera and hurraba followed In rapid succeaalou the flrat that had tivor been given lu a solitude who-e slleuce before lhat memorable summer, had never beeu broken by tbo voloe of man. The distance was no yet too groat for tlai souud to bo oonveyod to the ap-pronchlug ap-pronchlug wanderers,butlhe relief party par-ty bad already been delecteU.und tmlr trlemla hastened tu extend to them a lieurty wslootne. ldkenverltabluglanl, clad lu a suit of deer and dog tklu, and gracefully poised ou Canadian suow-ahets, suow-ahets, tbe conqueror from the far north plunged down thu mountain slope, llehlud hlin follow ed his falthlul companion, com-panion, young Astrup, barely more than n lad, yet a lower of strenglh uud euduranoe; he Was true tu the traditions tradi-tions of lila raco and uf lilt earlier con-iuetlsln con-iuetlsln thu usu of the Norwegian now-skato or "tkl." Willi liliu wero the live surviving Kaklmu dogs, seemingly seem-ingly us healthy and iuweriul as ou the day of their dvrliire. In leu tliu.ll an liuurafter Lleuleusnt 1'eary Wat lighted, aud atlll before tbo lasaugoof the midnight hour of that memorable August fitb, culminated that Incident uu the Inland Ice w blob use I be wont of a lifetime. Words cannot describe the seiitallont of the moment which bore the oy of the first salutation. Krom "Thu 1'etry Ilellel Kxpiditlou," by Dr. Angola llellirlo, In tbe January t&riSrier, |
