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Title: Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: World history. (from old catalog) Biography
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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base again, and seek to leave the landat Cape Hecla, said to be the northernmost point of land in the vastarchipelago west of Greenland. L-ate in the winter, therefore, insteadof staying down near his ship, Peary was quartered at Fort Conger. April 5, 1901, he started with Henson, one Eskimo, two sledges andtwelve dogs for the vicinity of Cape Hecla. On reaching the vicinityof Lincoln Bay, he found the condition of the men and dogs was suchthat he was obliged to turn back. Late in April, he started southward,and arrived at Cape Sabine on his birthday, May 6th. Several weekslater the Erik arrived from the south with mail and food. Then boththe relief ship and the Windward returned to lower latitudes, Mrs. Pearycoming home on her husbands own ship. The report of this last yearsaccomplishment, as given earlier in this article, completes substantiallyhe record of these years of effort in the North.
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PART V.W CHAPTER XXXVI. HEROINES OF THE HOSPITALAND BATTLEFIELD. WOMEN WHO HAVE FOLLOWED ARMIES TO CARE FOR THE WOUNDEDAND DYING—MINISTERING ANGELS OF MERCY—NOBLE ART OFNURSING—ONE ATTRACTIVE ELEMENT IN THE SAVAGERY OF WAR. Among tlie personal influences that have altered the everyday lifeof the present century, the future historian will probably allot a promi-nent place to that of Florence Nightingale. Before she took up the workof her life, the art of sick nursing in England can hardly have been saidto exist. Almost every one had a well-founded horror of the hired nurse ;she was often ignorant, cruel, rapacious, and drunken ; and when she wasnot quite as bad as that, she was prejudiced, superstitious, and imperviousto new ideas or knowledge. The worst type of the nurse of the pre-Nightiugale era has beenportrayed by Dickens in his Sairey Gamp with her bottle of gin or rumupon the chimbley piece, handy for her to put it to her lips whenshe was so dispoged. Sairey Gamp is one of

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