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"What do you mean? What do you demand of your captain? Are you,

then, so easily turned from your design? Did you not call this a

glorious expedition? "And wherefore was it glorious? Not because

the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it

was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident

your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited,

because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to

brave and overcome. For this was it a glorious, for this was it

an honourable undertaking. You were hereafter to be hailed as the

benefactors of your species, your names adored as belonging to

brave men who encountered death for honour and the benefit of

mankind.