THE GLAMOUR OF THE ARCTIC.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 67, 12 December 1907, Page 9

THE GLAMOUR OF THE ARCTIC.

Personally, I must confess that anything bearing on the Arctic seas is always l of tho deepest interest to 1110. Ho who has onco been within the borders of that mysterious region, which can be both the most lovely and the most repellent upon earth, must always retain something of its glamour. Standing on the confines of known geography, 1 have shot the southward-flying ducks, and have taken from thoir gizzards pebbles which they hare swallowed in some land whose shores no human foot has trod. Tho memory of that inexpressible air, of tho great ice-girt lakes of deep blue water, of tho cloudloss sky shading away into a light green, and then into a cold yellow at tho "horizon, of tho noisy, companionable birds, of the huge, 'greasy-backed wator animals, of the slug-like seals, startlingly black against the dazzling whiteness of tho ice, all' of it will como back to a man in his dreams.

And then to play a fish a hundred tons in weight and worth two thousand pounds—but what in tho world tins all this to do with my bookcase?— Sir Arthur Conan Doylo, in "Cassell's Magazine."