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We sailed for three days along the shoreline, then came to the mouth of a fjord or river of immense size. It seemed more like a great bay, and into this we turned our fishing craft, the direction being slightly northeast of south. WE SAILED FOR THREE DAYS ALONG THE SHORE LINE THEN CAME TO THE MOUTH OF THE FIORD OR RIVER OF IMMENSE SIZE IT SEEMED MORE LIKE A GREAT BAY AND INTO THIS WE TURNED OUR FISHING CRAFT THE DIRECTION BEING SLIGHTLY NORTH EAST OF SOUTH
s mean? Then, too, our many days of sailing had certainly carried us far past the North Pole. And yet the needle continued to point north. We were sorely perplexed, for surely our direction was now south.(14) (14 Peary's first voyage, pages 69 and 70, says: "On reaching Sir Byam Martin's Island, the nearest to Melville Island, the latitude of the place of observation was 75 degrees - 09' - 23", and the longitude 103 degrees - 44' - 37"; the dip of the magnetic needle 88 degrees - 25' - 56" west in the longitude of 91 degrees - 48', where the last observations on the shore had been made, to 165 degrees - 50' - 09", east, at their present station, so that we had," says Peary, "in sailing over the space included between these two meridians, crossed immediately northward of the magnetic pole, and had undoubtedly passed over one of those spots upon the globe where the needle would have been found to vary 180 degrees, or in other words, where the North Pole would have pointed to the south.") ION WAS NOW SOUTH NOTE FOURTEEN PERIE'S FIRST VOYAGE PAGES SIXTY NINE AND SEVENTY SAYS QUOTE ON REACHING SIR BYRON MARTIN'S ISLAND THE NEAREST TO MELVILLE ISLAND THE LATITUDE OF THE PLACE OF OBSERVATION WAS SEVENTY FIVE DEGREES NINE MINUTES TWENTY THREE SECONDS AND THE LONGITUDE ONE HUNDRED THREE DEGREES FORTY FOUR MINUTES THIRTY SEVEN SECONDS THE DIP OF THE MAGNETIC NEEDLE EIGHTY EIGHT DEGREES TWENTY FIVE MINUTES FIFTY SIX SECONDS WEST AND THE LONGITUDE OF NINETY ONE DEGREES FORTY EIGHT MINUTES WHERE THE LAST OBSERVATIONS ON THE SHORE HAD BEEN MADE TO ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE DEGREES FIFTY MINUTES NINE SECONDS EAST AT THEIR PRESENT STATION SO THAT WE HAD SAYS PERIE AND SAILING OVER THE SPACE INCLUDED BETWEEN THESE TWO MERIDIANS CROSSED IMMEDIATELY NORTHWARD OF THE MAGNETIC POLE AND HAD UNDOUBTEDLY PASSED OVER ONE OF THOSE SPOTS UPON THE GLOBE WHERE THE NEEDLE WOULD HAVE BEEN FOUND TO VARY A HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DEGREES OR IN OTHER WORDS WHERE THE NORTH POLE WOULD HAVE POINTED TO THE SOUTH
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