ll
aback." He believed that you should not strain yourself ever--much
less on Sundays. So from religious scruples he asked to be excused,
though he offered to row any one ashore if he was only going to idle
the hours away. After all, however, our Governor represented our King,
and I was personally horrified, intending to correct Israel's position
with a round turn, and show him that we are especially enjoined to
obey "Governors and Rulers"--as better also than the sacrifice of
loafing. But the Governor forbade it, quietly unpacked, put his things
away, and stayed aboard. Israel subsequently cultivated the habit of
remaining in bed on Sundays--thereby escaping being led into
temptation, as even Governors would not be likely to go and tempt him
in his bunk.

I have had others refuse to help in really necessary work on Sunday.
One skipper would not get the Strathcona under way in answer to a
wireless appeal to come to a woman in danger of dying from hemorrhage
forty miles distant. When we prepared to start without him, he told me
that he would go, but that it would be at the price of his soul and we
would have to be responsible for that loss. We went all the same.

Our charts, such as they were, were subsequently accepted by the Royal
Geographical Society of England, who generously invited me to lecture
before them. They were later good enough to award me the Murchison
Prize in 1911. Much of the work was really due to Sir William, and as
much of it as I could put on him to the Sabbatarian "Iz."

In connection with the scientific work on the coast I well remember
the eclipse of October, 1905. All along the land it was perfectly
visible. A break in the clouds occurred at exactly the right moment:
one fisherman, to console the astronomers, said that he was very
sorry, but that he supposed it did not much matter, as there would be
another eclipse next week. The scientific explorer, who was devoting
his attention to the effect on the earth's magnetism, spent the time
of the eclipse in a dark cellar. Most wonderful magnetic disturbances
had been occurring almost every night, and the night before the event
a far from ordinary storm had upset his instruments, so that the
effect of the eclipse on the magnetic indicators was scarcely
distinguishable. He had just time after the thing was over to peep out
and see the light returning. He had watched his thermometer and found
that it fell three degrees during totality.

The year 19