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Full title reads: “Now we continue our journey to Greenland’s icy mountains No. 6“ Introductory intertitle reads: “Accompanying bluff old Capt. Bartlett (Peary’s Companion on his North Pole dash) we brave the perils of ice and water in search of Arctic adventures.“ High angle shot of the prow of the Morrissey as it cuts its way through ice floes. Moving shot of “miles and miles of menacing ice“. Unusual shot of man climbing up to the crow’s-nest - we see the top of his head as he climbs the rope ladder towards the cameraman. Various shots of the ice and of men at work - some good shots of the ship cutting through ice seen from the crow’s-nest. Bluff Bob Bartlett narrates the film describing how they have been stuck in the ice for 37 days. Two of the party go exploring in a small canoe. Good shots of them canoeing through narrow canals. They chase after a polar bear who swims through the water. They rope him. Bob tells us that he is “mad as a March hare“. The polar bear struggles against th

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