Their summer trip had prospered through strenuous labor and thrilling feats, and they all looked forward to their winter on the ice as a well-earned holiday.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.
The illustration listed as facing page 43 in the List of Illustrations does not appear in the original book.
The caption for the Frontispiece was added by the transcriber based upon the List of Illustrations.