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DR. COOK'S OWN STORY 



winter than of the comparatively monotonous rush to the pole. He sees this 

 polar journey at the end of a long vista of fifteen months, which were crowded 

 with such stirring episodes, filled with such wearing exertion that — as he told 

 me — it seemed as though all the cells of his body and brain were burned out 

 and replaced in the fire of that strenuous life. 



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MAP DIL4WN AND SIGNED BY DK. COOK, SHOWING HIS ROUTE TO AND FROM THE 

 NORTH POLE. HIS AUTOGRAPH APPEARS IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER. 



