“Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.”
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I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
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Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
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