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suit of reindeerskin and polar bearskin cloth- 
ing, that had been made for him by the Es- 
quimo woman, Ahlikahsingwah, aboard the 
Roosevelt, It had taken him and his party 
five days to make the trip from Sheridan to 
Colmnbia. 
February 26: This from my log: '* Clear, 
no wind, temperature 57° below zero." Lis- 
ten ! I will tell you about it. At seven a. m. 
we quit trying to sleep and started the pot 
a-boihng. A pint of hot tea gave us a dif- 
ferent point of view, and Professor Marvin 
handed me the thermometer, which I took out- 
side and got the reading; 57° below; that is 
cold enough. I have seen it lower, but after 
forty below the difference is not appreciable. 
I climbed to the highest pinnacle of the cape 
and in the gathering daylight gazed out over 
the ice-covered ocean to get an idea of its con- 
dition. At my back lay the land of sadness, 
just below me the little village of snow-houses, 
the northern-most city on the earth (Com- 
mander Peary give it the name Crane City), 
and, stretching wide and far to the northward, 
the irresistible influence that beckoned us on; 
broken ice, a sinister chaos, through which we 
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