The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-09-22
THE PEARY DISCOVERIES.
4 Journey Of 1900 Miles Through
Snow and Ice.
GREAT GAINS FOR GEOGRAPHY.
Lieutenant Peary Finds That Green
land Does Not Extend as Far North
as has Been ThouGht-The Loss of
Prof. Verboef-A Brave Woman
Intense COId-Deen Snow.

Lieutenant Robert E. Peary and
his party arrived safely at st. Johns,
New Foundland on Sept. 11th from
his exploration in the Arctic regions
in Greenland. Prof. Peary and his
party were in ''Greenland's icy noun
tains'' about year.
Last spring a relief expedition was
sent out by the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia on board the
steam -whaler "Kite" Mrs. Peary,
the brave wife of the explorer was on
board and the pictures of her in her
Eskimo costume are quite pretty.
The relief expedition was in command
of Prof. Angelo Heilprin.
Eivard Astrup, a'young Norwegian,
accompanied Prof. Peary on his long
journey of l 300 miles. Astrup is es-
pecialIy skilled in the use of the
''skier,'' the Norwegian snow shoe.
a bright young mineralogist, Ed
ward NJ. NerhOetf, was in the eXpedi-
tion. and the only thing that marred
the pleasure of it was his deplOrable
loss, presumably in the creyasse of a
glacier. An unremitting search of
several days failed to discover him.
The sole provisions of the Peary
party in its long tour of discovery
were PemmicaH, pea soup, beans and
biscuit. His dogs were fed on seals
and walrus.
The lowest temperature during the
winter was minus 53 degrees, or 19
degrees above the lowest that has
heretofore been registered. The sun
sank below the horizon early in No
vember, appearing again on February
18th.
Five men accompanied Prof. Pcary
| and in the relief expedition there were
eight persons.
1t was expected that about the first
week in August, Prof. Peary would
start southwark. On August 4th the
Kite was pushed to the head of Nc.
| COrmick bay. Several days afterward
| signal posts were erected, with ban
nerS bearing directions to Mccormick
bay, along the route in which it was
| supposed Prof. Peary would return
| Prof. Peary saw these and suddenly
| pediUion while they were still engaged
| in locating signals for his guidance
| In writing of his expedition Prof
Peary says
"On July 4, after three days trave
| overland, / reached the head of {
great bay, latitude 81 deg. 81 min.
| longitude 24 deg, opening out eas1
and northeast. | named this Inde
| pendence Bay, in honor of the day
| and the great glacier flowing nortl
into it, Academy Glacier. [ reached
| inland ice again on July I.
'.ThiS land, red and brown in color
and almost entirely free of snow, Il
covered with glacial debris and sharl
stones of all sizes. Flowers, insects
and musk oxen are abundant.
''On July 9th we started on the re
| turn, taking course more inland. Ii
seven days we were struggling through
the soft snow and wrapped in tn
snow clouds of the great interior pla
teau over 5000 feet above the Sc;
level. We remained in the cloud
some fourteen days, when we descend
ed from them east of the Humbold
| Glacier.
1.-The conveyance of the Greenlan'
coasts above the seventy-seventh par
| allel, the detection of the main divid
to the northwest above the same PAL
allel, the termination of the CONT
mental ice cap below Victoria Inlet
and the existence of large glaciers il
all the great northern tiords are anon
the discoveries.
''The expedition brings back muc
chronological material, including tents
costumes, sledges, kayaks, and dogs c
the northern Eskimo, meteorologics
and tidal observations, and larg
number of photographs of native.
and dwellings, and costumes, an
Arctic scenery"
The following extracts from tn
New York Sun will prove interesting
'Lieut. Peary has proved the trut
and value of the theory he originated
that the way to find and map til
, north coast of Greenland was to us
the great ice cap of the interior as
highway. This supposition, thoug
| based upon his own earlier experient
I in sledging on the inland ice, was nc
approved by some of the leading al
thorities. The theory, however, h;
: now become a demonstrated fac
Peary and AStrup, with their dc
teams, have travelled over six hundre
miles northeast On this ice cap, an
, have seen the Arctic Sea along a hit
erto unknown coast line. Peary h:
! proved that Lockwood and .Brainar
o when they attained S3 deg. "a min. ]
in May, 1882, had practically reache
the most northern point of Gfeenlan
if indeed the islands. they saw-we
: not north of the highest portion of tt
!. mainland. He has proved that Gree
land does not extend as far north l
. about hundred miles as was though
S probable.
r "In rendering this service to geo
. raphy Lieut.. Peary has accomplish,
Z probably the most brilliant feat
sledge travelling on record. From Il
time he struck the ice cap on his /
q turn trip, until he reached McC6
: mick Bay, he averaged, as nearly
y can now be computed, twenty-thr
!. miles a day, although for fourte,
y days he struggled through soft snc
and was shrouded in the snow clou
e at an elevation of 5000 feet above S
v level.
!, HE is the first to fully explore Il
u wide arm of Baffin's Bay known
Inglefield Gulf, which penetrates f
:, inland; and along it's coasts he disco
. cred and named twelve glaciers al
|. three mountains; and among the mo
interesting features of his labors a
his studies of the Arctic Highlands
d about two hundred and fifty in nu,
4 Der. He made them a special obje
: of scientific investigation, and the j
J, suits cannot fail to be of interest.
y 1T was reserved for him to pilot
| aypndifian int0r tIl6 farthaSf north