As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

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

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

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