[ Lindsay / A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler 'Aurora' ]
David Moore Lindsay (1862 – 1956) was an Irish surgeon, explorer, and author.
This book, published in 1911 (Boston: Dana Estes) is Lindsay's account of a whaling expedition that turned into an attempted rescue mission. With several other whaling ships, the Aurora sought, unsuccessfully, to rescue the survivors of what is known as the Greely Expedition (more formally known as the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition), an American attempt to set up meteorological stations and gather scientific data in the far north. But weather and the failure of supply ships to reach the men turned the expedition into a scramble for survival; of the nearly 30 members of the expedition, only seven survived when rescue ships finally reached the men after nearly four years in the Arctic. (For more on the Greely expedition, which included a Newf, check out this entry here at The Cultured Newf.
Lindsay mentions Newfoundland dogs once, and only in the abstract. Discussing the Aurora's arrival at Newfoundland, Lindsay is put in mind of the "discoverer" (for Europeans, anyway) of Newfoundland, John Cabot:
Cabot is to-day very well thought of, but nothing much is known of what became of him. The name makes an attractive one for a Newfoundland dog. I have known several of them bear it, and it is a sort of geographical education to have them running around. . . .
"Cabot" was indeed a good name for a Newfoundland: in 1860, the Prince of Wales (soon to become King Edward VII) visited Newfoundland, and one of the gifts presented to him was a Newfoundland dog, which the Prince named "Cabot." The dog went on to have considerable success in the show ring. For much more on this Cabot, check out this entry here at The Cultured Newf. A few years after the Prince's Cabot was in the ring, another Newf named Cabot also had a successful show career (see this entry here at The Cultured Newf for a little more about this second Cabot.