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a day, increasing" our distance on each successive day, showing 

 that both men and dogs were in perfect training, and, like the 

 scientific athlete, had still the reserve force necessary for a 

 grand spurt on the home stretch. 



The night of the 5th to the 6th of August was an exqui- 

 sitely clear and perfect one. From eight to eleven Astrup 

 and myself and our remaining five dogs toiled up the north 

 slope of the largest of the ice-domes between the head of 

 McCormick Bay and the edge of the true interior ice — one to 

 which I had given the name "Dome Mountain." As I rose 



M A P O F 



INDEPENDENCE BAY 



EAST COAST or GRE.E:N^-A^4D 



July V" iS<)Z 



R.E Peary. U.S Navy 



Observation spOton navy Cliff 

 Lat. 81* 37' 5" N 

 uoNa. 5m* 5' w. 



