They came from east and west.
To the cold of north and south.
Manhauling or with dogs.
By foot på or on skies.
By boat, submarine
or balloon.
With manchurian ponies
or snowvehicles.

In many ways
and by many reasons
people have, for centuries,
tried to reach through the
icy worlds of the north
and south.

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find lists of some of this
early trafic.
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