Seward’s note and alteration to—

“’Twixt the cold bears, far from the raging lion”—

This Mr. Seward is a blockhead of the provoking species. In his itch for

correction, he forgot the words—“lies my safe way!” The bear is the

extreme pole, and thither he would travel over the space contained between

it and “the raging lion.”

“The Pilgrim.”

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