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This latest addition to Her Majesty's dominions was put down by him in latitude 85 degrees 32 minutes, or about 288 geographical miles from the North Pole. The first night on Home-in-sight Island was not so undisturbed as might have been expected.
Rising quickly, he bent a Union Jack to the halyards of his primitive flag-staff, ran it up, and in the name of Queen Victoria took possession of Home-in-sight Island.
"This, then," said the Captain, "is our first obstruction, so here we will make our beds for the night." As Chingatok had predicted, on the sixth day from Home-in-sight Island the party came to another island, where the great pack abruptly terminated.
"Home is in sight now," said Chingatok, who had taken no interest in the above discussion, as it was carried on in English. "A few days more and we should be there if we only had our kayaks." "There's the name," exclaimed the Captain eagerly when this was translated, "`Home-in-sight, that will do."
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