309
SOUNDING 312
BREAKING CAMP. PUSHING THE SLEDGES UP TO THE TIRED DOGS 312
LAST CAMP ON THE ICE ON THE RETURN 313
BACK ON THE "GLACIAL FRINGE" 313
APPROACHING THE PEAKS OF CAPE COLUMBIA OVER THE SURFACE OF THE
"GLACIAL FRINGE" 318
CRANE CITY AT CAPE COLUMBIA, ON THE RETURN 318
EGINGWAH BEFORE STARTING ON THE SLEDGE TRIP 319
EGINGWAH AFTER THE RETURN FROM THE TRIP 319
OOTAH BEFORE STARTING ON THE SLEDGE TRIP 319
OOTAH AFTER THE RETURN FROM THE SLEDGE TRIP 319
PERMANENT MONUMENT ERECTED AT CAPE COLUMBIA TO MARK POINT OF
DEPARTURE AND RETURN OF NORTH POLE SLEDGE PARTY 324
PEARY CAIRN AT CAPE MORRIS K. JESUP AS PHOTOGRAPHED BY
MACMILLAN AND BORUP 325
MEMORIAL ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF PROFESSOR ROSS G. MARVIN AT
CAPE SHERIDAN 325
THE SPECIAL GREAT GOLD MEDAL OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
OF WASHINGTON 364
THE SPECIAL GREAT GOLD MEDAL OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
OF LONDON 365

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results. Many of the most important pictures are from photographs not
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208, 271, 299 (top), etc.; but change of no other sort has been made
except to remove specks and other similar mechanical defects not widely
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FOREWORD

The struggle for the North Pole began nearly one hundred years before
the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth Rock, being inaugurated
(1527) by that king of many distinctions, Henry VIII of England.

In 1588 John Davis rounded Cape Farewell, the southern end of Greenland,
and followed the coast for eight hundred miles to Sanderson Hope. He
discovered the strait which bears his name, and gained for Great Brita