Said he: "The devil is asleep or having trouble with his wife, or we should never have come back so easily." It will be noted in this comparison, that practically the only feature of the plan from which essential deviation was made was in returning to Cape Columbia on the coast of Grant Land instead of further eastward to the northern coast of Greenland as I had done in 1906.

This change was made for excellent reasons, which will be made clear in their proper place.

Upon this record there is only one shadow--a tragic one indeed.

I refer, of course, to the lamentable death of Prof.Ross G.Marvin, who was drowned on April 10, four days after the Pole had been reached, forty-five miles north of Cape Columbia, while returning from 86 deg.

38' north, in command of one of the supporting parties.