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Okay Glenn l'm ready to start.
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Yeah l'll give you the whole
thing from the top and when we get--
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l'll just hit the "record"button
and you can start.
:48:14
Are you all set? Here we go.
:48:16
Stand by.
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Ready? Here we go.
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Three two--
:48:23
l was fascinated by the country as such.
l flew north from Churchill...
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to Coral Harbour on Southampton
lsland at the end of September.
:48:31
Snow had begun to fall and the country
was freshly covered by it.
:48:34
Some of the lakes
were frozen around the edges...
:48:37
but toward the center of the lake you
could still see the clear clear water.
:48:42
Flying over this country
you could look down and see...
:48:45
various shades of green in the water
and you could see the lake bottoms...
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and it was
a most fascinating experience.
:48:52
l remember l was up in the cockpit
with the pilot...
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and l was forever looking out
left and right...
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and l could see ice floes
over Hudson Bay...
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and l was always looking
for polar bears or seals to spot.
:49:04
but unfortunately
there were none.
:49:08
And as we flew along
the east coast of Hudson Bay--
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- this flat country frightened me...
- l don't know. Let me say this again.
:49:13
- l don't go for this northmanship.
- because it just seemed endless.
:49:18
We just seemed going into nowhere.
:49:20
And the further north we went
the more monotonous.
:49:24
But l see it as a kind of a game--
this northmanship thing.
:49:26
People say "Well were you
ever up at the North Pole?"
:49:30
l say "l did
a dogsled trip of 22 days"...
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and the other fellow says
"Well l did one of 30 days. "
:49:37
Perhaps they would see themselves--
:49:40
Sure the North's changed my life.
l can't conceive...
:49:43
of anyone being
in close touch with the North...
:49:46
whether he lived there all the time
or simply travelled it...
:49:49
month after month
year after--
:49:51
l can't conceive of such a person
being really untouched by the North.
:49:56
When l left in 1 965--
at least left the job--
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lt was not like there was some
special merit some virtue...