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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Donald B. MacMillan 



A MEMBER OF THE MAC MILLAN EXPEDITION FINDING PEARY'S CABIN AND RECORD 

 AT THE NORTHERN END OF AXEE HEIBERG LAND, MAY, I914 



The Arctic explorer reached this point in June, 1906, on his return from "Farthest North," 

 87° 6', reached in April of that year (see map, page 297, and text, page 300). 



forms huddled in the snow. For forty- 

 eight hours they listened to the sullen 

 roar of wind and drifting snow across 

 their bodies. 



The jealous gods of that great frozen 

 Sahara, guarding its secrets down through 

 the ages, were justly alarmed at this in- 

 vasion and looked in wonder at these 

 pioneers who had the temerity to leave 

 the comforts of civilization and flower- 

 bedecked slopes of the Warm Greenland 



fiords and advance into the great white 

 unknown, with its attendant severity of 

 cutting winds and drifting snows. 



These same gods must have laughed 

 aloud five years later upon seeing a man 

 lashed to a plank and landed upon their 

 shores with a broken leg, far up at the 

 head of Inglefield Gulf. This American 

 explorer would not go home; he would 

 do what he came to do ! 



And when the ship steamed out through 



