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IT is pleasing to be able to begin our fifteenth volume with congratulations to the officers and men of a British Arctic Expedition on their safe return. On another page we give a summary of the results obtained so far as these can yet be known. It will be seen that substantial additions have been made to our knowledge in many directions, and that the expedition must be pronounced a success. True, the Pole has not been reached, but this, in the consideration of all but the mere lovers of sensation, is a small matter; our explorers have done the next best thing to reaching it, they have proved that the Pole was impracticable this year from the quarter whence success was most to be expected. It is evident from the few hints which have already been published, that when all the tale is told, it will be quite as thrilling, and full of dangers and bravery, as any previous narrative of Arctic exploration. So far as the conduct of the expedition is concerned, it seems to have been all that could be wished; the original programme was, on the whole, closely stuck to, and the desperately hard and dangerous work was done in the most systematic and economical way at present possible. Everybody seems to have behaved admirably; there seems to have been no fault whatever to find with anyone; and so much has Capt. Nares endeared himself to officers and men, that he earned for himself the common title of “the father” of the expedition.
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The Arctic Expedition. Nature 15, 1–3 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/015001a0
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