WE REACH THE POLE The last march northward ended at ten o'clock on the forenoon of April 6.

I had now made the five marches planned from the point at which Bartlett turned back, and my reckoning showed that we were in the immediate neighborhood of the goal of all our striving.

After the usual arrangements for going into camp, at approximate local noon, of the Columbia meridian, I made the first observation at our polar camp.

It indicated our position as 89 deg.

57'.
[Illustration: CAMP MORRIS K.JESUP, 89 deg.