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Dateline Battle Harbour, September 1909: Peary Reaches the Pole
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A Narrow Escape
19 of 39 		Crossing a Lead on an Ice-cake as a Ferry-boat
20 of 39 		Bartlett and his Party ready to start back from 87 degrees 47 minutes North, April 1 1909
21 of 39 		King Eskimo Dog
22 of 39 		Lifting the 500-lb. Load over a Pressure Ridge
23 of 39 		Working Sledges Over a Pressure Ridge
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Passing through a Defile in Rough Ice
25 of 39 		Cutting Blocks of Snow for Igloos at the next to last Camp, 89 degrees 25 minutes North
26 of 39 		The Halt for Lunch in the Last Forced March, 89 degrees 25 minutes to 89 degrees 57 minutes
27 of 39 		Camp Morris K. Jessup, 89 degrees 57 minutes, April 6 and 7 1909
28 of 39 		The Reconnoitering Party at the Pole
29 of 39 		The Double Team of Dogs used with Reconnoitering Sledge at the Pole
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Actual Sounding, Five Miles South of the Pole, April 1909, 1500 Fathoms (9,000 feet), no Bottom
31 of 39 		Four North Pole Eskimos (from left to right Ootah, Ooqueah, Seeglo, Egingweah)
32 of 39 		Swinging an Ice Cake across a Lead to form an impromptu Bridge
33 of 39 		Passing over the Bridge
34 of 39 		Last Camp on the Ice on the Return
35 of 39 		Approaching the Peaks of Cape Columbia on the Return Journey, over the Surface of the Glacial Fringe
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