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The North Pole

CHAPTER XVII
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A golden gleam is radiated from parallel ranges of serrated mountains.

Individual peaks reflect the light of the sun, which will illuminate them with its direct rays in a few days.

There is a cornea of golden glow, crimson and yellow, with strata of darker clouds floating parallel to the coast ranges--Turner effects for hours each day and for days in succession, the effect increasing from day to day.

I am writing under difficulties, Inighito (an Eskimo) holding the candle.

My hands are so cold that I can scarcely guide my pencil, as I recline on the bed platform of the igloo." But all this anticipates.


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