Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-13
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ship has Gomez, and two DAYS later DIR.
Cook arrived and requested me to shorten
my stay in camp and return to Redcliffe
and help them entertain our friends, the
members of the relief party, which did,
I remained at Redclif until August 3,
when accepted the invitation of Prof
Heilprin to accompany his party on the
Kite to the head of the bay, where he in
tended to make q reconnaissance of the
inland ice previous to starting on his search
for Mr.. Peary and Astrup. About A. M.
on August 6, while lying in my bunk, I
heard the clash Of oars and the shouts of the
returning party. As the boat reached the
vessel someone jumped over the rail aud
came tumbling down the companionway.
NY cabin door was hurriedly pushed open
and my husband stood before me.
Shooting Deer and Narwhal.
August we landed at Redclif and Au-
gust Mr.. Peary, Mr.. Verhoeff and myself,
with an Eskimo crew and Matt as their cap.
tain, started up Whale Sound and Ingle-
field Gulf to collect some specimens at
neighboring settlements, which had been
bought, but not delivered. We were abb
sent week and during this time it rained
every day, and usually all day long. The
experience in an open boat is one which
will not soon forget However, We got ten
deer of which shot three, and killed nv
first and only narwhal.
August "a we all boarded the Kite and
steamed homeward. Everyone of Us had q
feeling of sorrow at leaving the good old
Huskies, who had been SO faithful to US and
to whom our visit had given glimpse Of
the way other people live.
There seems to be prevalent an entirely
mistaken idea of the style of dress adopted
by me during nv absence. When l left the
United States went fully equipped for
two-years' stay in the Arctic regions.
While did not labor under the delusion
that anyone wintering in Greenland would
surely freeze to death 1 did provide myself
with an abundance OF wooden clothing.
Among other things / had heavy flannel
wrappers and flannel dresses consisting Of
skirt and jacket. 1 never for moment
thought of discarding nv mode of dress Tor
that of the Eskimo.
Mrs. Peary's Arctic Costumes.
NV costume in the house consisted of
Jaros combination suit-kniekerbockers
made of deerskin, o common sense waist
and heavy flannel wrapper cut walking
length, deerskin stockings coming to the
knee and kamiks made BY the natives.
Deerskin mittens and the deerskin koely-
tah, which had close fitting hood attached
to the neck band and was trimmed around
the face with foxskin aud also had fox tails
around the bottom of the sleeves, were
added when l went out for NV daily walk
during the winter
But must make it plain that this mode
of dress was only adopted during the months
when the Thermometer ranged from 25 abSve
to so below zero. Anything warmer than
25 above, with no wind, was entirely too
warm for turs il we were exercising at all,
and my deerskin knickerbockers were e1-
changed for wooden skirts as soon as we mad
constant sunlight, except when was max
ing the 250-mile tour of Whale Sound and
InglefeId Gulf in April. Then. although
we lad sunlight "a hours out of the "a, L
was riding on the sledge part of the time,
and we always travelled by night, or rather
during that part of the day when the sun
was near and below the horizon, thus having
the warmest part of the dav for sleeping.
JOSEPHINE DIEBITSCH-PEARY