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Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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8. The course of the expedition up to this pointis described by Dr. Cook in his despatch in the following terms :— After a long struggle against hunger and cold, we have at lastsucceeded in reaching the North Pole. A new route, interesting fromthe point of natural history, was followed by us. We found districtsthickly inhabited by big game, which will extend the sporting territoriesof Eskimos as well as of European sportsmen. We discovered a land onwhich are the northernmost rocks of thg world. We have reclaimed atriangle of 30,000 square miles of unknown land. It was at the end ofa summer cruise in Arctic waters that the expedition was decided upon.Our yacht, the BraiJIei/, reached the limit of navigable waters, in SmithSound, towards the end of August 1907. There conditions appearedfavourable to us for l^eginning an expedition to reach the Pole. Mr.John Bradley furnished us generously with provisions taken from theyachts stores. The outfit that I had taken with me, to be ready for
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Qio iEdiiiLurgli G«ogr6tpliifa.T. IiLslitat; Scottish. Geograpliical INIagaziJie.. 1909 J G-B artIiol;:^evf 536 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. anything, turned out to be sufficient for attempting an Arctic voyage.Many Eskimos had gathered on the shores of Greenland, at Annootok, fora bear hunt which had been planned for the winter. They had alreadycollected a great quantity of meat, and healthy dogs were running aboutthe camp in large numbers. This combination of circumstances was astroke of luck for us, as we found everything necessary for the equip-ment of the expedition which we were planning—expert assistants,draught animals, in a word, all that we required, and that at a pointonly 700 miles distant from the Pole. Thanks to the assistancespontaneously offered hy this little trilie of 250 members, a house anda workshop were speedily built out of packing-cases, and we at once setto work to study the conditions of the problem which we were intendingto solve. Before the end of the

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