PEARY'S LATER VOYAGES 147 



Made a new and accurate census of the Eskimo people. 



More important than the scientific results, however, were the moral results. 

 Attainment of a point within three degrees of the pole showed Peary that by a 

 little more effort, a little more suffering, and a little more luck, he could com- 

 pass the few score miles and "nail the stars and stripes" to the pole. 



The great year of 1909 was near. 



