It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
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We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether.
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As I stood there on the top of the world and I thought of the hundreds of men who had lost their lives in the effort to reach it North Pole, I felt profoundly grateful that I had the honor of representing my race.
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I have reason to be grateful to Dr. Cook for favors received I lived with his folks while I was suffering with my eyes, due to snow blindness, but I feel that all of the debts of gratitude have been liquidated by my silence in this controversy, and I will have nothing more to say in regard to him or to his claims.
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