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Excerpt from Self-Sacrifice: Or the Pioneers of Fuegia
We do not, however, include within our list of selfish heroes, those who have gone forth on scientific explora tions; for these, too, are missions intended to benefit man; and the gallant and benevolent Franklin, and his men, whose melancholy fate forms so sad a parallel to that of the martyrs whose history we are about to relate, deserve a more conspicuous niche in the temple of fame than did those, who to serve their own ambitious purposes, overran and conquered kingdoms. They found the cruelest of deaths, surrounded by the desolations of the polar regions.
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