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...England's post-Reformation church at first followed the empire around the world not primarily to win the heathen for Christ but to provide spiritual solace for the colonial conquerors. One of the earliest recorded appearances of English ways of worship overseas, in August 1578, was on solitary Baffin Island, where one Master Wolfall "preached a godly sermon, which being ended, he celebrated also a Communion upon the land" for the sole benefit of Explorer Martin Frobisher and his crew. The Anglican chaplains of the East India Company were interested in ministering only to Englishmen abroad; in the 17th...
Travel agents, steamship companies and airlines are reaching way out to bring in the faraway answers. A safari with Baffin Island Eskimos. A climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Shooting expeditions in Nepal. Eat roast monkey with the Yagua Indians of the Amazon, and watch them shoot poisoned darts. Fly over Victoria Falls. A traveler can subscribe to a sort of Island-of-the-Month Club, called Islands in the Sun, that briefs its members on the latest and the best. Bachelor Party Tours, clipper voyages to the Seven Seas, motor caravans from Singapore to Istanbul, Tramp Trips...
...miles north of the Arctic Circle. A tall, spade-bearded Yankee from Newburyport, Mass., Greely was not alarmed when the first supply ship failed to reach them. But in the second summer, a supply ship failed again: it was trapped and sunk in the grinding ice floes above Baffin...
...Kansas questioned the "vast expenditure." On April 24, 1884, a rescue flotilla finally set out under Commander Winfield Scott Schley, who, 14 years later, was to destroy the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Santiago. After a two-month voyage and a search of the coves and inlets of Baffin Bay, Schley reached Cape Sabine. Only Greely and six others, out of 25, remained alive. In memorable understatement, an emaciated survivor said: "A hard winter, sir-a very hard winter...
...Victorian Tastemaker John Ruskin, who became an explorer to meet a stipulation in his father's will that he must spend a substantial inheritance entirely on world travel; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Charlottesville, Va. Among Dr. Ruskin's involuntary travels: a 4½-year investigation of Baffin Island's "white Eskimos," whom he decided were descendants of marooned Norwegian explorers...