:03:01
But, uh, Sir Anthony...
:03:05
Expedition to the Arctic?
:03:07
I'm... I'm hardly
a professional explorer.
:03:10
Ah, let me finish.
:03:12
- I've had you looked into.
- Oh?
:03:14
You're an American from the University
of Minnesota, currently a guest lecturer
at the University of Christiania.
:03:20
Your specialty is the archaeology
of the north.
:03:22
In the past, you've led
several successful expeditions.
:03:26
You've done some very interesting
work in Greenland.
:03:28
Oh, no, no. You're the right man
for the job, all right.
:03:31
The right man for what job?
:03:33
And what's so urgent about it?
What is it you hope to find?
:03:36
My... son.
:03:44
You see, my wife died
when Donald was a child.
:03:48
As he grew older, I began to groom him
to take my place in the business.
:03:51
I... pushed him too hard. L...
:03:54
Anyway, we had words.
:03:56
Then suddenly Donald dropped everything
and went off on a whaling ship...
:03:59
as an ordinary seaman.
:04:01
Three months later, I got word
that he'd left the ship in Baffin Land.
:04:07
Why?
:04:08
I had no idea, until I received this...
:04:12
from a trading post at Fort Conger
on Ellesmere Island.
:04:16
Apparently Donald had left it
with the factor for safekeeping...
:04:19
when he'd gone off
on some sort of expedition.
:04:22
When he didn't come back,
the factor sent it on to me.
:04:27
It's an old page
from a Hudson's Bay Company journal.
:04:31
Look at the entry
forJanuary the 15th, 1856.
:04:36
"To this post this day...
:04:37
cameJohn Murchison
with his Eskimos...
:04:41
who hunt the white bear...
:04:43
far beyond the land's end.
:04:45
He told of seeing a lone cloud...
:04:48
as if lying on the ice...
:04:50
and hidden beneath it...
:04:52
an island.
:04:54
This island he sought to examine,
but his Eskimos refused him...
:04:59
saying it's guarded by evil spirits...