THE BROWNIES IN THE POLAR REGIONS.

But still the time will come, no doubt,
When men will find all secrets out
And feast their eyes upon this sea

So quickly found by you and me.

We need no map, nor chart, nor plan,

 

Because not limited, like man,
To knowledge passed from hand to hand;
Through ages long, the Brownie band,
In ways peculiar to the race
With all requirements keep pace.”
Reviewing thus the region cold
That has such wonders to unfold
In icy island, gulf, and bay,
That maps may show some later day,
The Brownies various methods tried
By which to cross the country wide;
They turned to use whate’er they found
To aid them as they journeyed round.
The cunning band some dogs secured,
To cold and hardship well inured,
And on rude sledges void of art,
In which large skins played leading part,
They traveled over many a plain
That bold explorers sought in vain;
While others had the luck to find
Some reindeer of the strongest kind,
That could be trusted to proceed
O’er roughest ground at greatest speed,
In different ways the hardy deer

 

Was made to render service here;
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