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THE LANDS OF SILENCE
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, Manager
LONDON: FETTER LANE, E.C. 4
- NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
- BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, MADRAS: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
- TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
- TOKYO: MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Sir Clements R. Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S.
printed by George Henry, A.R.A.
THE
LANDS OF SILENCE
A HISTORY OF ARCTIC
AND ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION
BY
SIR CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM,
K.C.B., F.R.S.
CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1921
v
PREFACE
Although there were few subjects in which the late SirClements Markham was not interested, it may safely besaid that Polar Exploration stood nearest his heart. Notmany persons had studied the ground as thoroughly ashe; no one was more widely acquainted with its explorers.I was anxious therefore that his recollections of thepersonality and work of the many distinguished Arcticnavigators he had known should not be lost, and someyears ago suggested to him that he should record the storyof the gradual revealing of the