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Cape York
Friday Aug 10, 1912.
At 10:00 last night the fog suddenly lifted
and then lay Greenland before our eyes -- a band
in the smoky gold and cruelly beautiful. The rich
ice cliffs leaned back, tracing the ice cap
into the eastern sky.
We were just off the Devil's Thumb rising 2 or
3 feet. At least it seemed