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"colors of the sunset clouds, but [?]
not finding any favorable leads
along the shore and fearing that
some of the bergs might come together
and crush us, Captain Pickelsteins
ed about and motored out to sea
for two hours, finally mooring
the vessel to a big floe. Another
week of drifting, sailing and motoring
carried us along forty miles nearly
on our course and found us between
the headlands of Cape York Bay.
We were in sight of Meteorite Island
and I had a chance to look through
my binocular at the place where
Admiral Plean secured the great
the largest in the world,
iron meteorite, which was christened
Ahnighito and now is one of the
chief treasures of the American
Museum of Natural History."