Fahrenheit, with clear sky and calm weather (except as already noted for the single observation on the sixth).

I give here a facsimile of a typical set of these observations.

(See the two following pages.) In traversing the ice in these various directions as I had done, I had allowed approximately ten miles for possible errors in my observations, and at some moment during these marches and countermarches, I had passed over or very near the point[2] where north and south and east and west blend into one.
[Illustration: PEARY WITH CHRONOMETER, SEXTANT AND ARTIFICIAL HORIZON AT THE POLE] [Illustration: PEARY TAKING AN OBSERVATION AT THE POLE, WITH ARTIFICIAL HORIZON, IN A SNOW SHELTER] Photos by Henson, April 7 [Illustration: FACSIMILE OF OBSERVATIONS AT CAMP MORRIS JESUP, APRIL 7, 1909] [Illustration: FACSIMILE OF OBSERVATIONS AT CAMP MORRIS JESUP, APRIL 7, 1909] [Illustration: THE FOUR NORTH POLE ESKIMOS: From Left to Right: Ootah, Ooqueah, Seegloo, Egingwah] Of course there were some more or less informal ceremonies connected with our arrival at our difficult destination, but they were not of a very elaborate character.

We planted five flags at the top of the world.
The first one was a silk American flag which Mrs.Peary gave me fifteen years ago.

That flag has done more traveling in high latitudes than any other ever made.