With only a few days’ worth of food left, De Long knew they had to find a way out of this quagmire of mud and sand and water and locate the main channel of the Lena. He read to the men a passage from the Gospel according to Matthew: “Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? Or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed … But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
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