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Almost at once, a solid cushion of fog robbed them of all observation of drift and ground speed. A powerful gale sprang from the northeast, forced them west, cost them heavily in priceless gasoline. Two hours later, they outran the fog, came out above a solid white of the polar ice, ridged, hummocked, corrugated like a sheet of twisted steel...
...with a month's rations, 157 miles from the Pole, 450 miles over the Polar ice from the nearest hope of rescue, without dogs, too far north for animal food. They must choose between walking and striving to lift a 6-ton plane onto the ice and clearing a take-off over corrugated ice which might split at any moment. They chose the latter...
...Wilhelm Filchncr, of Germany, who was prevented from attempting a polar flight with Amundsen in 1914 by the declaration of war: "I have the most complete and utter confidence in Amundsen. For a man of his vast polar experience and knowledge, no hindrances exist. . . . He knows the location of all food depots and it is much too early to begin talking rescue...
...David Todd of Amherst College, in reporting the spot to laity, reminded them to look next for displays of the aurora borealis. Just what influence the sun exerts-whether cathode rays, Hertzian waves or negatively charged particles-to cause "the dance of the dead men," the "merry dancers," the Polar or Northern Lights, is undetermined by scientists. But two centuries of observation have indicated that sunspot years are aurora borealis years, the phenomenon, ordinarily confined to polar regions, being sometimes visible as far south as Yucatan in the Western Hemisphere and Gibraltar in the Eastern...
Later in the year the explorer went on a long trip in search of the famous, musk ox which inhabit the Polar region and feed on the frozen vegetation which grows in the bare spots of this country. He showed the first moving pictures ever taken of these rare animals, encircled by the Captain's Esquimaux dogs which played hide and seek with them, some times however getting caught on the horns. "I've always wanted to ride a musk-ox," said the speaker, "and I found out what it would be like last spring. We caught a young...