New-York tribune., 1891-08-27
THE NEJVS or THE PEARY EXPEDITION

THE NEVIS or THE PEARY EXPEDITION
In some respects Lieutenant Pcary's expedl-
tion TO Northern Greenland is one Of the most
novel undertaken in that region since the days
of Erik. II includes woman no seas are to
be traversed, and its itinerary cOntemp!ates
hold plunCe into tho hidden interior of the
Gland of desolation.n The preliminary ar
rangements were carefully planned The base
selected at Whale Sound, where the party has
been landed. is the one advocated 10y Kane.
HAYES and Hall, and other leading American
geographers, and the projected reconnaissance
10 the southern angle of Humboldt Glacier and
establishment of depOts of supplies have been
generally approved as likely materially TO en-
hance the prospect of success. Tho steam
whalor Kite which sailed with the eXpedi-
ton from Brooklyn, has just returned to New
foundland from tho Arctic regions. Her re-
mort indicates that Whale Sound was reached
in good season, and the Peary party landed
with their supplies and the house in which they
mean to winter.
Before starting, Lieutenant 'Peary slid he
expected to he landed late in June or early in
July. The apparently accurate fIlliilment OF
this part Of the programme therefore renders
peculiarly regrettable the mishap to the intrepid
leader who is said to have broken his leg. This
accident, it is to be hoped, will not endangcr
the ultimate aim Of the enterprise; but it must
increase It's difficulty. In his address before the
American Geographical Society in April, Lieu
tenant Peary jauntily beitted his own hardi-
hood protesting that there was "nO danger
whatever in the project and that the hard
ships of an eighteen months sojourn in North
ern Greenland were no greater than they would
be in Siberia or the higher Alps, or even in
Dakota and Montana. His original design,
after wntering at Whale Sound and collecting
sedges and dogs, was to start overland early
in the spring with fGHr or five men, proceeding
thence in a northeasterly direction across the
dry, unbroken snow, which, according to his
theory forms smooth road between the high
rock barriers of the coast. Assuming that eight
months are passed at Whale Sound, the injured
explorer would still have plenty of time foI
recovery, a result which Mrs. Pcary's ministra-
tions may reasonably he trusted to hasten.
An important element in the original venturC
was. however Mr.. Peary's own experience anl
the advantage derivab!e from personal nstruc
ton based on his journey of four Yeas ago
when, with a single companion, he penetrated
| for over a hundred miles into the glacial wilder
ness and reached an altitude of z, 500 feet above
the sea lie will now probably be debarreC
from conducting the experimental sacs tC
Humboldt Glacier and the snowshoe an(
sbier'' practice on lngefeld Gulf. so impor
tant in their bearing on future success. On,
member of the party, it is said. is a snowsho,
expert. But it is not certain that Mr. Peary
during his enforced inactivity, will care to loac
with hazardous commissions deputies unfamilia
with the pecIliarities Of the ice plateau. Th,
manner of Mr. peary's accident is not related
but his wel-wishers will regard it with tn,
adherence entertained by Napoleon's satellites
for the dish of onions that procured the disaste
Of Leipsic. Professor Heiprin's subsidiary ex