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the Polar Sea, also along the north coast of Grant Land, 

 and samples of the bottom secured; the existence of 

 considerable numbers of the Arctic reindeer in the most 

 northern lands determined ; the range of the musk-ox 

 widened and defined, a new comparative census of the 

 Whale Sound Eskimos made, etc., etc. 



It seems proper also to note that the result of the 

 last Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club has been to 

 simplify the attainment of the Pole fifty per cent.; 

 to accentuate the fact that man and the Eskimo dog 

 are the only two mechanisms capable of meeting all 

 the various contingencies of serious Arctic work, and 

 that the American route to the Pole and the methods 

 and equipment used remain the most practicable for 

 attaining that object. 



Had the winter of 1905 to 1906 been a normal season 

 in the Arctic regions and not, as it was, a particularly 

 open one, there is not a member of the Expedition who 

 doubts that we would have attained the Pole. 



And had I known before leaving the land what 

 actual conditions were to the northward, as I know 

 now, I could have so modified my route and my dis- 

 position of sledges that I believe we could have reached 

 the Pole even in spite of the open season. 



Another expedition, following in my steps, and prof- 

 iting by my experience, can not only attain the Pole, 

 but can secure the other remaining principal desiderata 

 in the central Arctic Sea, namely, a line of deep-sea 

 soundings from the north shore of Grant Land to the 

 Pole, and the delineation of the unknown gap in the 

 northeast coast-line of Greenland from Cape Morris 

 Jesup southward to Cape Bismarck. This work can be 



