CHAPTER XIV 
BARTLETT's farthest north HIS QUIET 
GOOD-BY 
T EAVING the Commander and Marvin 
^ at the igloos, my party took up the Cap- 
tain's trail northward. It was expected that 
Peary would follow in an hour and that at 
the same time Marvin would start his return 
march. After a few minutes' going, we came 
to young ice of this season, broken up and 
frozen solid, not difficult to negotiate, but re- 
quiring constant pulling ; leaving this, we came 
to an open lead which caused us to make a 
detour to the westward for four miles. We 
crossed on ice so thin that one of the sledge- 
runners broke through, and a little beyond 
one of the dogs fell in so completely that it 
was a precarious effort to rescue him; but we 
made it and, doglike, he shook the water out 
of his fur and a little later, when his fur froze, 
I gave him a thorough beating; not for fall- 
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