As regards personnel almost the same can be said.

Though Captain Bartlett and the crew were Newfoundlanders, the Newfoundlanders are our next-door neighbors and essentially our first cousins.

This expedition went north in an American-built ship, by the American route, in command of an American, to secure if possible an American trophy.

The _Roosevelt_ was built with a knowledge of the requirements of arctic navigation, gained by the experience of an American on six former voyages into the Arctic.
I was extremely fortunate in the personnel of this last and successful expedition, for in choosing the men I had the membership of the previous expedition to draw from.

A season in the Arctic is a great test of character.