tiger-of-the-north

Updated: June 10, 2025

Rowland had done what no Innuit hunter will attempt he had fought and killed the Tiger-of-the-North with a knife. It had all happened in a minute, but in that minute he was crippled for life; for in the quiet of a hospital, the best of surgical skill could hardly avail to reset the fractured particles of bone in the limp arm, and bring to place the crushed ribs.

Morgan Robertson - The Wreck of the Titan: or, Futility