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might be easily repeated on any similar summer
as an ordinary pleasure trip from Tromsö.
As rounding the North Cape has now become
merely a school-girl’s holiday trip, we need only
measure the magnitude of my proposed expeditions
by their extension beyond this. About six hundred
nautical miles farther north would give us the
latitude of Captain Kielsen, or allowing fifty to
one hundred miles more for the easting, we have
an easy three days’ trip for a steam-packet making
only nine and ten knots per hour. Having
daylight all the while, she may keep her course
without hesitation or risk until the ice appears. From
Tromsö and back again the excursion might be
made in a week or eight days, and the “Tourists’
Arctic Expedition” boat might sail fortnightly
in correspondence with the present Arctic packet
service, and would, I believe, even at moderate
fares, pay very well.
Such an excursion would be exceedingly
interesting. Every American “doing Europe”
would be bound to make it, even if distasteful
to him. Not to have seen the paleocrystic
ice-wall of the North Pole would be as humiliating
as to have omitted the Pyramids.
The class of tourists who would go merely in
order to have been, would alone suffice to pay fair
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