I20 NEAREST THE POLE 



double rationed their dogs, and I arranged their loads, 

 and put what remained in a prominent cache on a 

 hummock of the old floe on which we camped. A 

 beautiful day but colder, and the going north ap- 

 peared to be good. I hoped it was. 



The point of view makes a great difference. From 

 here the broad ''Hudson River" looked much fairer 

 than it did from the other side, and looking across its 

 shining surface to the purple shadows under the 

 opposite ice banks, a very strong imagination might 

 even fancy a resemblance to its namesake. 



