The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-10-25
1900 Miles BY SLBDCB,
Lieut.. Peary's Journey on the
Ice Cap Of Greenland.
pERlLS MET on THE WAY.
Land Reached at Last on the I'm.
known Northeast Coast.

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Lung D,tours TO Comrass Crevn.se. Mt
Oh. nvnd OF Glacier BNsins - Marrow
r,e,pe, r Do-- nnd SiedEes While Cross.
,sr Ynwniug Crev,ees-Propen.ity OF tho
Team for Chewing u lis harness aud
stealing Kat,ons-The Not Juis sun on
N. Red Rocks Of the North toNst--
y,.,on- ot vivid Green Grass md Flower.
snow %iIuniina ~ and MusL Oxen In Picnty
A Map OF TIE Route. Pictures Caught on
Oh. Way, and the First Fart OF the Narrn.
,,,. or a Great Arctic Journey.
q, tho las, day o! April. 1892. in magnin.
..,t bracing weather. the cliffs ut the head Of
Mccormick Bay clear cut us canoes through,
the frosty air. DR.. Cook. Gibson. Astrur. Kyo- !
abpahdu. Tahwahnah. Kookoo. md two Is
kimo boys. opportuno arrivals Of tho night
lcforc. left Radcliffe. our winter camp. with
two sledgcs and eight dogs draG ging tho last
Of til, inland leo supplies. Now. three days
later. the time had come for mo to start. This
was thu moment toward which tho studies OF
six years had tended. the work to which
every movement 1.-THE preceding year had been
directed and made suhscrvient. The count
is little things which always crowd last
moments Of preparation were completed. and
my lIous" WAS nut in order.
il was o'clock In the evening when I sent
Matt out to toll my huskies. Kyoahpahdu and
Tahwahnnh. to help him get the big dog
slcdcc down over the ice foot and harness in
the dogs. The start was made in the evening.
for during tho next three months the usual
o:,ier Of things was to 10 reversed. and We were
TO travel by night and sleep by day.
Ny team Of twelve grcut bear dogs. which
had been resting for a week since their dash
round Inglefeld Cult. were full OF life and
fire. and l saw. by tho way they jerked Matt
and the huskies down over the ice foot in
thcir dash for tho sledge and the relish with
which they pitched into each other when the
different factions met. that Matt. skilful as he
had become in the use Of the whip. would have
trouble In getting them down to work for the
first mile or two. SO I told him to 60 on and I
would overtake him.
A hearty handsl8ke and good-by to YER
hoef. who wished me the fullest realizations
Of oil my hopes. and l turned to say Good-by
TO my faithful natives, but not one in the set
Element was to be seen. Having finished help
ing Matt harness the dogs they had vanished
into their huts. The kapetausoak was going
away never to return. Powerful as he was the
spirits Of the Sermiksoak or Great Ice were
more powerful. and no mortal might dare their
anger and DO seen again By human eyes. They
would not say good-by.
Mrs. Peary was to me to Mile
Toint. and We followed the sledge trucks In
silence for some distance.
Al INST the sound Of Mats voice. the crack
OF lis whip. and the howls Of the dogs came
clearly through the freezing air: then a point
OF tho shore came between and silenced them.
Radcliffe disappeared behind q hill. and the
sun had already dropped behind the northern
shore OF tho bay.
W. might have been the sole occupants Of
the earth.
7 knew how the brave woman by my side
vas struggling with her fears for me. though
hers was to be the harder lot. and 1 did my
hest 10 cheer her. knew by her lnal good-by
that l had but partly succeeded.
Aturn in the shore hid the fur-clad figure,
with faithful Jack crouched by its side. from
sight. and / heightened the stride OF my
snowshoest to overtake the sledge. Four hours
later my team was scrambling over the leo
foot at the head OF the bay. Tho place whero
we reached the shore was close to the sito OF
our Tuktoo camp Of last year. and our route to
the interior lod from here up a steep BLUM
some 200 feet in height and then over a sue
cession OF terraces to the edge OF the great ice
cap. some four miles distant.
A few moments later my inland ice sledge.
which had come up dashed on tho big dog
sledGe. was on my bock. and. with Mntt
following at ny heels with n couple OF ~
pound tins. we began climbing tho b!un.
sharp rocks. with tho spaces between them
filled with snow. made travelling laborious
RHi slow. and 1t was about 3 o'clock in the
morning whom l rose over tho edge OF the
blui and stumbled upon my boys asleep in
the snow with their dogs picketcd near. l did
hot intend to disturb them. but. as ! put down
my slcdce and turned to descend. DR.. Cook
woke with II start. and very soon all were
awake. found all Ct the supplies had been
backed to the gorge half a mile above the
camp, and evcrythin: was in readiness to
start with tho dogs from that point. Return
Ing to The icn foot Matt and l brought up an
other load. anu then. leaving Matt to got Il lit
Tie sleep r'th the Other boys. l went down to
my dogs anh turnoL in as l was. In my furs. in
tho remains of a snow hut near the bny.
When l awoko a Tow hours later tn. boys
wcro at tina door of tbs igioo. and found On
loolin. nm m, yollay TIM, my nld ,ri.nj tho