The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-02-24

in our intended brief stay here AL |
ter . short rest an and EFFORT TO Get
our deer comfortable under the oil /
cloth tent. ] mounted Bob An rode
I'D near the base oy the North Pole
for d closer inspection. Later. rode
entirely Ground the Pole. the Ice bsin
level an fairly smooth fer quite
distance. Before / started On this
trip / made up my mind that IL
found hit possible 10 locate the Pole.
Id ride Bob rite up TO hit. or
around hit. an l am glad that
/ found nothing to prevent BOD
liz the only mule that hez bin
Ground the world. an IL the only one
that hez bin TO the Pole-awl GROUND
hit-so TO speak President Roos--
welt will never be able ter buy Bop.
He liz not fer sale al any price.
mite allow Mir. Roosevelt TO ride Bob
ersin an | may allow President Taft
% ride him il | ever visit Washing
ION while he liz President. though he
does weigh several hundred pounds.
But II he doesn't make a special re-
quest I'll not mention hit.
After maxim hasty inspection ov
the Pole. | put Bob in hiz tent al
went with Etusco. my Eskimo, who
had gotten the deer an things tuck
ed away. fer a closer inspection oy
the Pole. | can't help thinkin' thai
he wuz a bit disappointed. fer he
| l.. b ir1f Twin
an movin'. He liz Intelligent consid-
erin hiz chances. But | think that
he looked upon hit az a child mite
who had heard oV circus. but who
had never bin to one. But hit evil
IDENTIFY made deep impression upon
him. The fact that l had come from
far away country. a country about
which he could not heV any correct
views, to find and view the North
Pole, had no doubt, affected him very
deeply. The Pole itself wuz strange
thing to him. But the Northern
Lights, which. az l hev sed before
air beyond my ability to describe
probably interested the Eskimo faI
more than did the Pole. Ov course
he had seen the lights at a distance
ov a few hundred miles. But that
WuZ not like seem them rite at him
so to speak. The most expensive
the most elaborate display OV fourth
ov July fireworks az seen in the larg
er towns an cities ov the United
. States, air pretty to look at. But the
, | oil hrrt fnw foahIa
\ tiny sparks az compared to what you
see here around an about the NORTH
Pole. A settin' ov the sun some af
ternoon when the beautiful red an
pink rays air reflected on local, feec.
clouds, liz a wonderful. though no
unusual sight to awl lovers ov tn
, beautiful in Nature. But the mos
+ gorgeous sunset cannot be compared
to the Northern Lights az we he
witnessed them in approachin' tn
Pole, an az we saw them last mite a
a close view.
After a thorough examination O
the Pole I must still decline to tel
what hit liz composed ov. The Pol
liz probably six or seven hundred fee
high, round, and perfectly straight
an liz twenty-four feet in diameter a
the base. Hit appears to grow les
in diameter gradually toward the to
e an looks to be only about half a
d large at the top az at the base. Blu
h hit would appear about that way
g the natural eye even if hit liz tn
d same size hits entire length or heigh
Il Az hit hez stood in the SHOWS al
e winds fer thousands ov years, to sa
|, nothin' ov the freezin' climate, b
e hez suffered a guide deal from wea
e in erway an the surface liz roug
It an uneven in many places, thong
l. the erosions air not deep, hit pro-
ably bein' too hard for the winds
make more than a slight impressio