Chapter ThreeFEBRUARY 1914
En ma fin git mon commencement
In my end is my beginning
Mary, Queen of Scots
My name is Iain Cosgrove, the journal began, and I shall transcribe in these pages a faithful and true account of everything that happened in our voyage from Dundee to the Greenland Sea. At present the sealing ketch Lady Balgay is fast to an iceberg, drifting but safe somewhere off the East Coast of Greenland and I am alone in the captain's cabin. I would wish it otherwise.
As I write this, I shall endeavour to leave nothing out and add nothing. In other words, this account will be the plain, unvarnished truth as I see it. Please remember always that I am the surgeon of this damned vessel, and have only a vague understanding of anything nautical, so if I do not write the correct te
