, 1891-06-10
OFF TO GREENLAND.
Another Expedition Starts for
the Icy Seas.
The Party Accompanied by a
Woman.
Cold BlOOded Butchery at
Port

NEW York, June 9.-The fast, staunct
steam brigautine Kite sailed yesterday
from the foot OF Warren street, Brook
lyn, on her way to the icy seas. Sh,
carries to her very p%erilous and adven.
turous tasks two expeditions, two parties
of scientific searchers, who will explor,
Greenland, If possible, to its uttermosI
limits.
Men have often before risked their
lives on Arctic seas and lett their bones t.
whiteu on the snow. This time a woman
goes the first white woman who evei
braved a winter in the land of the Aurora.
the first white woman who ever dared the
rigors aud the prlvatiOns of such a Jour
ney.
This brave and devoted woman IS Mrs.
Pearv, the wife of Lieut., r +. Peary. Of
the United States navy. She is really d
beautiful woman, a brunette, small and
delicatelv formed. Ii must interest every
woman in America-and every man for
that matter-to learn that she is but five
feet tall and that only thirty years have
passed over her shapely head. But she
has the heart of a lion, nothing daunt,
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So he. who has calculated all the chances,
will keep her by his side.
The party headed by Lieut.. Peary,
comprises. besides his wife, four men
The lieutenant proposes to explore the
coast of Greenland, and to determine
whether that irigid land is an island or a
continent. When the Klte arrives at
Whale Island, II deg. 20 min. north,
which may be in a month, for the
%brigautine can steam seven knots an hour,
Lieut. Peary aud his companions will
disembark. They will find themselves
there, at the foot of Humboldt Glacier,
whose differing walls stretch 1000 feet to
the sky. which is the largest glacier 10 the
world.
There the lieutenant will build a cairn
in which he will deposit sufficient pro
visions to maintain his party for three
years. Then he and his plucky wife and
his co-explorers purpose to ascend the
Humboldt. The natives say that on its
summit is a plateau, and over that the
lieutenant hopes to travel
From Whale Sound this expedition will
take a northeast course. This will bring
them to the nOrtherbmost point ever
reached by man, the point where the
Greedy expedition suffered so much.
They will travel, not by sledge or by boat,
but overland on "skiers," a modified and
elongated form of suowshoe. Lieut..
Peary expects thus to make five miles
each day he travels.
From the place that Greedy reached this
newest exploration will skirt the coast in
an endeavor to learn how the coast line
trends, whether to the north or east, only
returning to his base OF supplies at Whale
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with hin are about consumed. Lieut..
Peary's plans to return by the route he
takes over the freezing island-or cont
nent as 1t may prove-and to reach some
point On the coast next year or the year
after where he, his intrepid wife and his
companions can board a whaler bound for
the United States.
The other party on the KITE is TO be
known as the West Greenland Exploring
Expedition of the Academy OF Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia.
The scientists from the academy will
OF course, accompany Lieut.. Peary on the
Kite to Whale Sound. Thence the vessel
will return direct to Upanavik and from
there to Disco Bay. Some of this expe.
dltion will disembark there; others will
cruise on the Kite in whatever direction
seems best to them TO obtain the intOrma-
ton they seek.
The land division will explore the iu-
terror of the country, in particular an un
named mountain hack OF Disco Bay, OF
which g~eographers know nothing. of
whose denizens BIOLOGISTS and of whose
fora botanists are ignorant. Returning
southwark, several fiords will be explored
and the height Of glaciers be determined
as accurately as possible.
Near Godshaven there is another un-
named and unknown mountain which will
be climbed and examined. From there
the party will go to Ivigtut. and thence to
st. Johns, newfoundland. Everywhere
its members will make geological and
botanical collections and try to inform
themselves of Greenland's geological
formation. They hope to be home again
about the middle of next September.
The Kite, besides being tight and
staunch, is a most comfortable vessel.
Capt Pike, an experienced mariner in
Northern waters, commands her.
The expenses of both expeditions are
borne in part by the Academy of Natural
Sciences and in part by private sub
scriptions. Indeed, so enthusiastic are the
men who are about to undertake these
hardships that most OF them have paid
money from their own pockets into the
expense fund.