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The North Pole

CHAPTER XXXIII
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It was impossible to get them to move faster than a walk, light though the loads were.

Henson and the Eskimos also appeared to be a bit stale, so that it seemed wise to make a single march here instead of the usual double march.
After a good sleep we started to put in another double march and then we began to feel the effects of the wind.

Even before we broke camp the ice began to crack and groan all about the igloo.

Close by the camp a lead opened as we set out, and in order to get across it we were obliged to use an ice-cake ferry.
[Illustration: SWINGING AN ICE-CAKE ACROSS A LEAD TO FORM AN IMPROMPTU BRIDGE] Between there and the next camp, at 85 deg.

48', we found three igloos where Marvin and Bartlett had been delayed by wide leads, now frozen over.


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