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The North Pole

CHAPTER XX
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CHRISTMAS ON THE ROOSEVELT The four December field parties returned to the ship one after the other.

Captain Bartlett was the only one who had found any game, and he got only five hares.

During this trip the captain had an experience which might have been decidedly uncomfortable for him, had it turned out a bit less fortunately.

He was up in the Lake Hazen region with his Eskimos, and he had left them at the igloo while he looked around for game.

He had just found some deer tracks when the moon went behind a bank of clouds and the night became suddenly black.
He waited an hour or two for the moon to come out that he might see where he was, and meanwhile the two Eskimos, thinking he was lost, broke camp and set out for the ship.


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