I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

Great God! This is an awful place.