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interest on the capital invested in the speculation.
Added to these, by way of bonus, there would be
the genuine travellers who would be induced to
make such an excursion by an intelligent interest
and curiosity urging them to explore the Arctic
mysteries so far as prudent non-professional sailors
may venture. They would see the most
interesting portion of what we saw between Tromsö
and Vadsö, in the same or less time. We left
Tromsö at midnight on Saturday, July 25, and
reached Tromsö on returning at 9 p.m. on Sunday,
August 2; in time to meet and take back the
proposed Arctic heroes and heroines.
Besides the northern coast they would have an
opportunity of seeing Arctic icebergs, ice-floes, and
the final Arctic barrier, that baffles human curiosity
and the enterprise of our bravest explorers. It is
quite possible that on some occasions they might
reach a higher latitude than has yet been attained,
as the limits of polar ice are very capricious
and fluctuating, and nobody yet can tell what is
the precise season or the particular conditions
upon which the utmost extension of open sea
depends.
The frequency of the excursions would test
these conditions, and one or the other of the
trips must of necessity fall upon the most
favourable. As it is, with the grand polar expeditions
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