The men who lie there were not less courageous, not less intelligent, than the members of my own party; they were simply less fortunate.
Let us look along that highway for a moment and consider these memorials.

At North Star Bay are one or two graves of men from the British ship _North Star_, which wintered there in 1850.

Out on the Cary Islands is the nameless grave of one of the ill-fated Kallistenius Expedition.

Still farther north, at Etah, is the grave of Sontag, the astronomer of Hayes's Expedition; and a little above it, that of Ohlsen of Kane's party.

On the opposite side are the unmarked places where sixteen of Greely's ill-fated party died.