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...only other feasible alternative-reliance on coast defences,- unsatisfactory. (1) Inadequate for the defensive. (2) Useless for the offensive...
...purposes of defence. (1) Our extensive seaboard and inadequate coast defences. (2) Interests in Alaska. (3) Continually increasing commerce...
...Adequate coast defence can be provided without a powerful navy...
...expedition will start from New York on June 25, immediately after the close of the college year. The course will lie along the Labrador coast to the west of Greenland, past the fjords and the Norse ruins to Melvill bay to the Peary party. Then the Kane, Hayes and Greeley winter quarters will be visited, and after a tour through Greenland the homeward trip will be begun, reaching New York about the middle of September...
...Melville's charge alone survived. He made the land at the delta of the Lena river in northern Siberia. For the last five days the journey had been made in the boat, without provisions of any kind. The bodies of the men were badly frozen. The party searched the coast about the mouth of the Lena thoroughly, but no trace of their missing comrades was found...