45:19 A Mogul Magnet, 1902. Do you want me to read this one or do you want to save it for later? Hell yeah! Let's do this one I love it Okay so I'm going to read the whole thing if that's okay Sure It's not too long Okay Mogul Magnet 1902 After the explosion of the giant powder mills in Alabama a party of northern capitalists purchased the dividends and determined to erect another factory upon the ill-fated spot For every year for 12 years the mill had exploded, causing terrific loss and many deaths. Powder mills are interesting they tie in with the ancient trees and the mining systems but maybe we'll get into that next The president of the company requested that I should visit Petersburg in search of a magnet endowed with sufficient power to attract an object of friction at a distance of 50 feet
46:12 Fortunately, while prospecting through the North and in Alaska I formed the acquaintance with Captain Lawrence, late of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company who kindly informed me that along the Yukon Delta there existed a peculiar lodestone of wonderful magnetism. To me this information was invaluable and I accordingly accepted his invitation to join the whalers who were soon to leave on an expedition from Point Borough I was a little dubious of this adventure, in spite of the promising report of the Delta for ten years previous to my brother Jim—my only surviving relative—sailed from Point Borrow with Bob Lawrence, a brother of our captain. Wild fellows they were too and the result was the wreck of the revenue cutter and four whaling vessels. Nine hundred men became castaways and eventually perished from hunger and long exposure on the sterile coast of Greenland."
47:11 Our voyage was replete with events thrilling and dangerous, and in my enthusiasm for the whaling business I quite forgot my lodestone mission. When I was brought to bear upon my mind in a thoroughly disagreeable way, the captain and I were together on deck discussing the possibilities of making our return down the Yukon River thus passing through the goldfields and lodestone ore when the engineering crew appeared before us and announced that the machinery in the power room refused to work. None of the engineers could explain this mystery, it really seemed inexplicable. Soon the steam died away but strange the vessel's speed increased and began registering as high as 270 knots per hour
48:01 It was indeed a ship at sea. What direction we were going it was impossible to tell, for the compass didn't show—but with a glass I saw at a distance a mountain of dark color and the secret of our speed was revealed! We were within the precincts of the great lodestone mountain that both the explorers Ross and Franklin believed to be near the pole surrounded by waters presumably unnavigable." I knew that when we arrived within a certain distance the attraction of this mogul magnet would be so powerful that the vessel would be crushed to pieces against it. A hasty examination was made of the vessel, nothing could be done to avoid a disastrous landing for the hull was of heavy iron of the ordinary build with fastenings of steel. We therefore thought no more on the vessel's safety but how to avoid death shock which most assuredly would come to us all."
49:02 Necessity was the mother of invention in this case, an avenue of escape was suggested by a British sailor who through fear had already suspended himself three feet from the floor by catching to a rubber strap that hung from the ceiling. Within half-an hour we had a strap each and were dangling in mid air when the crash came. It was a crash indeed for one side of the vessel was firmly embedded in the adamant With the exception of Good, who sustained a slight shock. Every man aligned on the mountain bank unhurt." We succeeded in reaching the top of the mountain where millions of gross flew gainly around. I'm going to kind of cut through this here a little bit. They found a cozy habitation of cliff dwellers. They found a cave where it looked like people had been living. What The Dickens exclaimed I can this be a mountain of cliff dwellers?
49:55 Even as I said it from an aperture in the rock there limped out a Rip Van Winkle looking fella clothed in a beautiful cloak of duck breasts and with the glorious crown of white locks, I thought I must have got a touch of the sun. How did he ever get here? So they found a man in this cave Besides he was alone or we could easily see all over the mountain I stared and stared And so did the other men and just as the instant that captain came up from the rear here cap when I said Is that a white man or North Pole Josh? Then all of the sudden, the white haired man gave a cry and came hobbling toward me. When he got close he fell down in a sort of faint with a spring I was by his side great powers it was my brother Jim so his brother who died with 900 other men in that whaling accident is the band that he found on this island covered in duck breasts
50:55 As a sound for the disturbance another figure also clad in seal skin emerged from the cliffs and came running towards us. On seeing the captain he too gave a cry, Captain he hollowed don't you know me Bob your brother? And fell at his kinsman's knees and rolled over and over weeping 10 years ago, Lawrence and I were hurled against this mountain. The ship and the other 13 men went into the deep. Since then we too have lived in a second Robeson Crusoe." So this is the two men they found on this island had been living here for ten years. Friday hoping against hope that some explorers might help us away but none ever came And now you of all people on earth turn up and find us where you least expected
51:39 In a joyful manner, we all set to talking and relating to the main features of our many adventures till exhausted from long exposure. We fell asleep from here no day or night came so fantastic there's the sun is always up yet the world around us mellowed with the delicate rays of the Aurora Borealis The preparations for our return voyage were arduous from the wreck of our vessel. We secured a sufficient quantity of timbers to build a boat in which we conveyed ourselves safely to the port of Nuuk Thence to Uncle Sam's icebox rich in the knowledge of the great fortune that lay awaiting our return, the mogul magnet of the earth. Crazy story." Yeah! I mean obviously this synchronicity of finding their own kin ten years later but let's not bury the lead... The Magnetic Mountain! The Lodestone Mountain! If you look at