Life — May 20, 1926 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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The LIFE Polar Expedition Special Correspondence from Robert Benchley Lire’s Bicyel North | We 3 just between Woodlawn and Mt. Vernon, at a point where there he some rt of road-digging This means that we all down and wait for them else go back We are nd take a tia Litth scour ‘Chief, Licut.-Commander Con nelly said to me as we were pedalling hrough Morrisania (168th Street) ye ever ave any doubts about our the others—Amunds catching up wit! and Byrd, | mear 1 felt a ‘ou my heart strange Was this mutin. “Have you talking?" I him. “Well, no, t “but Ensign Thermaline I heard any of the mer asked, with, exact! terday would be befor other expeditions “Ve an tell Ensi if he will and Lieut.-Commanc with tears in his eyes. was all that he said, Mott Haven, where we spent the nig we have over the Grand Cc . only once at a repair shop to get a new Ensign Thermaline Thermaline had thumb-picce bell. Ensign been, the hell almost constantly Street, since being one of the cautious pilots in the expedition A peculiarity « wntry which we all have noticed since crossing « the Harlem upon rows of River is the rows large apartment house have sprung up along At first none of us spoke of at.-€ der Ce 1 keep his thou; “Have number of apartment asked. We alla its to himself no ed th longer you n large an interesting A little b looked ¢ BHONYVILLE © MEVERNON MAP SHOWING PROGRESS OF EXPEDITION TO DATE mobile and it was it really an automobile except t pelled by the littl as pro- » Which 1 were in direct cc ct sich walk e members of the expedi- tion were in favor of stopping and get- ting the little boy to join, but wiser counsel decided that it would take him = too to get his that we ’ prevailed and we long winter things packed and t to in any more 1 into in the events He delays than we should r natural course of would have been ¢ " said Lieut.- h for a ap inde Right in our path we came toa unding a reser We Therm: face, and reporti s practically ten feet deep. anyway me my di hing ed thi being out question, we decided that it 0 take one seemed to lead around it. We ve better f the rea which because left chose the one to the leit + Lieut.-Comm elly’s favor- And Dame Fe choice, for . t into the Bron nted to be, Had we taken t right, there is no pould have ended up. It was in passing Woodlawn Ceme le before Mt. V miles e thon, The sight of the of monuments in Woodlawn Com, mander Connelly and set him thinking and miles depressed Lieut “bike” ¢ drawing up alongside my i Man's 6 wheels), 11 t it seems hardly worth all we call fuss and pother of try loesn’t he whispered I think that word is* “Which word? “The word you called ‘pothe tr" T said. he asked ttle cruelly, Iam he asked of anything plied, a “Are ye As sure as one can h in this old world,” T said “That's just it,” the lieutenant com: River Pa comicbooks.com