Excerpt from The Last Cruise of the Miranda: A Record of Arctic Adventure Quite a number of mice, as well, indeed, as their larger cousins the rats, had laid their plans to accompany the expe dition; though to the credit of some, be it said, that with wise forethought they deserted the ship on the very day of sailing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.