BACK TO LAND 
We found the abandoned igloos of Crane 
City and realized that Captain Bartlett had 
reached the land safely. The damage due to 
the action of the storms was not material. We 
made the necessary repairs, and in a few min- 
utes tea was boiled and rations eaten, and we 
turned in for sleep. For practically all of 
the two days following, that was what we did: 
sleep and eat; men and dogs thoroughly ex- 
hausted; and we slept the sleep of the just, 
without apprehensions or misgivings. Our 
toboggan from the Pole was ended. 
Different from all other trips, we had not 
on this one been maddened by the pangs of 
hunger, but instead we felt the effects of lack 
of sleep, and brain- and body-fatigue. After 
reaching the land again, I gave a keen search- 
ing look at each member of the party, and I 
realized the strain they had been under. In- 
stead of the plump, round countenances I 
knew so well, I saw lean, gaunt faces, seamed 
and wrinkled, the faces of old men, not those 
of boys, but in their eyes still shone the spark 
of resolute determination. 
Commander Peary's face was lined and 
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