Show I r FAREWELL TO MARVIN MA VINI Be Careful of the Leads Leado His Lat Last I Admonition As all the tho world knows Ross G Marvin was the only man of oC I successful polar expedition to sacrifice lice fice t c e his life mo The Tho pathetic details of I final l nal goodbye to are ar I found In the commanders narrative lIa r I In the July Issue of Hamptons Nag Mag Magazine name azine He says r The next morning morn ins Friday March 26 r 1 rapped the whole part up aP at 5 G I after a good sleep all ll rotund rotundAs t I As soon as we had eaten our our usual I breakfast of pemmican biscuit and I tea Henson on and I with three sledges ana ann I dogs got goi away on Bartletts trail Marvin with and 1 Harrigan one sledge and seventeen dogs started south at 9 No shadow sha ow of apprehension for fOl the tho future hung over that parting It was a clear crisp morning the sun sunlight su sunlight 1 I light glittering on the Ice Ic and U lid snow the dogs were alert and active after their long sleep the air nil blew lew cold I and fresh from the polar void old and Marvin himself though reluctant to turn back was as filled with exultation I that with the exception of Bartlett and myself he alone of all white men I had entered that exclusive region legion lc ion which stretches beyond 85 S degrees s SI 1 I 1 j minutes north latitude I I shall always be glad that tuat Marvin h I marched with me during durin those thoRe tho e last few days As we tramped along to I gether we had discussed the plans for fOl his trip to Cape Jesup 1 and his I Iline 1 line of soundings from there thero north northward northward 1 ward and as he turned back to the theland I t land his mind was alert with hope for a t j tho the future the future which ho was destined never to know It ty 3 last I c words wor s to lo him were j r Bo Do careful of the leads my m boy bo boB By B a strange coincidence soon 4 tafter t after aCter Marvin left let us on his fatal Jour Journey Journey ney ner back to land the sun sum was ob 1 ta t soured and a dull lull haze hazo lJ a spread over all the sky The rhe light l was gray and It was Im impossible F possible to sec see for any distance That d I tl t light Is not unusual on the Ice fields fiel s of o the polar sea but o 0 othis this was the first occasion on which s swe we had encountered It since leaving n the tb land A Amore more ghastly and corpse lik atmosphere could not have been I Il Imagined l sk sl and Ice seeming ut utterly utterly b terly attenuated and unreal c Cc C |