Chapter TenGREENLAND SEA
MARCH 1914
It is by no means enough that an officer of the navy should be a capable mariner… He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. He should be the soul of tact, patience, justice, firmness, and charity.'
John Paul Jones 1775
Returning to deck, I looked again at the surroundings, already hating the bright starkness of the terrain; this would be a terrible place to die, I thought, and wondered what morbid fantasy had brought that into my head. The old time whaler men had spoken of beauty up here, the romance of the wilderness with nights that never grew dim and the spectacular aurora borealis, dazzling colouring and intricate patterns of ice, but today I could see non
