Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-23

and steam fully nlno knots. As pro.
lection against ice while running free
the Kites bows tlfteen feet back are a
solid mass of wood. the tlmbers being
dovetailed together. A vertical strip OF
iron passes from, the bowsprit down the
nose under tho water line and some dis
lance along the keel. The iron is
inches wide and inch thick. Straps Of
iron inches wide and ~ inches thick
are bound around the nose horizontally
TO snub the ice. From the stern two
thirds OF the way forward tho sides are
doubly plankcd. Eoth sides down to the
keel 70. ward arc also doubly planked
She has had plenty Of experience among
the icebergs. Mr. Bowring, OF the ship
ping firm of Bowring a. Archibald. OF
New York, the agents OF the Kite, says
that II she hit an iceberg II would be
very bad thing for the berg.
Whalers OF this kind go north, loaded
TO the gunwales with coal, and II they
are specially fortunate and catch their
whales quickly. they heave tho coal
overheard TO make room for the oil.
The Kite may bring back whale or
two. but the plans OF the party arc to
make its zoe 'ogicai prices much more
varied than those OF whaler. DIR.
Hughes expects TO have q carnival
among the birds OF Greenland and I'll up
large rart OF the steamers tween
decks with bird skins, eggs and nests.
DIR. Sharp will carry a Winchester rife
of bOse sufficiently lagge TO enable HIM
TO bag with ease polar bear, walrus,
O narwhal the unicorn-whale-o or
seal. Reindeer and musk OK will tumble
before his bullets II has the luck he hopes
for.
Lieut.. Peary said that the chief OBJ
ject sought to be accomplished by the
expedition Is the so ution of the prob
lem whether Greenland is an island or a
continent "If IL Is continent and it
seems to me that tho weight OF the evil
dence is that way" Lieut.. Peary con-
tinued, @the vexed question OF the find
ing OF the north pole will have been an
swered In the affirmative, for 1t will be
necessary, in order to reach the pole,
only to penetrate further aud further
into the frozen country along the line of
the western coast of Greenland. II 1t
shall be proven that Greenland is a con-
tinent, many lives of explorers who
might seek TO reach the pole by sailing
north will be spared"
In some parts OF Greenland, particu-
larly the north, the ice and snow, col
lecting for ages, has accumulated until
IL is a mile thick in some places. AS it
never melts, the surface Is tolerably
smooth. 1t is the discharge of ice by
means Of glaciers that keeps the supply
down
The weight Of the snow pressing from
the center to the edges forces the ice
into the sea 1t flows down the valleys
as rivers do, -end, reashias tho san--iS
broken off into icebergs. Greenland,
therefore, is one huge iceberg factory as
well as a; F,efrigerator XIhlsh NTH its
ice stored up for eternity, has tremen-
douss effect upon the Temperature Of
everything within hundreds of miles of
IL, and no doubt upon the climate Of this
country. (
Lieut. Peary gives the following brief
outline Of his plans:
In July the party, numbering five or
six, will go into winter quarters at Wha'e
in supplies for the ~f7 onlSa. and lay
pole. Next sprIn, Journey toward the
will be sent forward 70 advance party
rots OF supplies, and the mnafiish de-
will follow, proceeding as far north as
possible.
Here a second depot will be estab-
lished. and two or three of the party,
with full sledges, will push on, the others
returning with light sIedges to Whale
sound
The advance party will push on from
Petermann ford to the head of Sherard
Osborne ford, establish a depot there,
thence to the head of De Long ford, es-
tabish depot, thence to the northern
terminus of Greenland.
This point reached and determined,
the advance party will retrace its steps
to Whale Sound, taking up the various
depots, and seize the first opportunity to
return home.
he whole theory OF the project is
based upon the fact that the interior of
South and Middle Greenland is known
to be covered with an uninterrupted ice
cap and the more than probability that