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The North Pole

CHAPTER XXV
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and 50 deg.

below zero.

The wind had shifted again to the east and was very penetrating.

Bartlett and Marvin started off with the pickaxes as soon as they had finished their morning tea and pemmican, and their divisions, with Borup and his division, followed as soon as their sledges were stowed.
MacMillan got away for Columbia with two Eskimos, two sledges, and fourteen dogs.

The main expedition now comprised sixteen men, twelve sledges, and one hundred dogs.


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