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Excerpt from The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 7: October 23, 1925 A contemporary drawing of the Jeannette on its departure from San Francisco in search of a new continent in the frozen north in 1879. It was believed by many that once beyond the rim of ice up to that time unbroken by civilized man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.