In their ignorance and their eagerness to be near land, they believed this, and by this innocent deception I prevented the panic which seizes every Arctic savage when he finds himself upon the circumpolar sea out of sight of land.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Why I should never have gone out of sight of land for more than two days, as he has charged, when such miraculous speed can be made on the circumpolar sea, is something Mr. Peary might find interesting reasons to explain.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Oval features, a mixture of red in the complexion, an aquiline nose, have all been observed amongst the more favoured of the circumpolar men and women.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham