The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-06
PEARY REACHES CAMP,
The Explorer Safe and Sound
at His Winter Home.
a VERY QUICK JOURNEY.
He Crosses Melville Bay in the
Best Time on Record.

Dogs and Good Supply OF Fur Clothing
Remarkable Success OF the First Days
Of Huuting-The Smith sound EskImos
Have seen Nothing OF verhoen-No Doubt
Now OF His Death-The House Erected
Near tho Edge OF tho Inland Ice-Twenty
Ton. OF Dog Meat Procured Before tho
Falcon started Home-Pienty OF Reindeer
for tho ExpIorers-Twenty.rour waIrns
Captured In Ono Evening -Eine Prospects.
ST.. JOHNS. N. F.. Sept. 5.-Lieut Peary's Arc-
tic ship. the Falcon. arrived at St Johns to-
day. bringing the following despatch from
Lieut. Peary himself:
FALCON HARMON,
HEAD OF BowDo1N BAY,
"GREENLAND. Aug. 20. 1893
"The Falcon arrived in this harbor on the
Sd OF August after o successful though dis
agreeable voyage, owing to the constant sue
cesslon OF fog and rain. After leaving Battle
Harbor. Labrador. stops were made at Hope
dale and Okak. Moravian mission stations in
Labrador. for dogs. twenty Of which were OBJ
tained. The Falcon then bore away across
Davis Strait to Holsteinborg, in southwest
Greenland. where she arrived on the 26th OF
July. Nineteen dogs and q kayak tnativo
mans boat were obtained here, and after q
stay Of some i've hours tho Falcon steamed
northward. reaching Godhavn. on Disco ISL
and. on the 18th. Here twenty-one dogs. an
other kayak. and tho fur clothing ordered last
spring OF the Danish Government were OBJ
tanned. and after . stop Of fifteen hours tho
ship again headed northward. arriving at
Upernavik two days later.
Only q few dogs being obtainable here
stop OF only three hours was made. and. with Q
native pilot on board. the ship steamed to
Tasuisak. about forty miles further north. the
most northern white settlement on the face Of
tho globe. Here seventeen dogs were obtained.
making grand total OF eighty-four.
Tho stay here was only long enough to put
the dogs on board and. eight hours later. the
Falcon was at Duck Islands on the southern
edge OF Melville Bay. Five or six hours were
spent here In the effort to get o supply Of
ducks. but tho lateness Of the season and the
previous visit OF Ave whalers had 30 diminish
ed the ducks and made them SO wild that the
effort was unsuccessful
Leaving the Duck Islands at 4:40 P. NJ. on
July 81. the Falcon steamed past the point OF
Cape York at $50 p NJ. on Aug. I. having
made the run from Duck Islands to Cape York
in twenty-four hours and fifty minutes, the
quickest passage on record through Melville
Bay.
The native settlement at Cape York was
visited In order to mako inquiries In regard to
Mr. VerhoefY tho member OF Peary's last expe-
dition. who Is believed to have persisted in a
crevasseL but no tdings could DO obtained.
though found there one OF the Eskimos who
had been living with me at Red ClIffe House.
and who was there whom the Kite left for the
south in August last year. and who had boon
with mo In tho search for Verhoeff.
"Steaming northward an effort was made to
find natives on Saunders Island and at North
Star Bay. but without success. At Netchi-
loome. Just at the entrance to Whale Sound.
two native families were found old acquaint-
ances who had visited Red Clife House. They
had neither seen nor heard anything OF YER
hoeff. Both these families. with all their be-
longlngs and about q ton Of narwhal and wal
rus meat for tho dogs. were taken on board
and brought TO the site selected for the new
house. site which noticed year ago as
being particularly suitable for our purpose.
The location is at the head OF o little rock
bound harbor. which is itself at the head OF
Bowdoin Bay. and Is perfectly protected from
wind and storm and gives easy access to tho
inland leo After landing the material and
getting the house we'll started with q few
members OF my party on board. We steamed to
the walrus grounds In Whale Sound. where
twenty -four were captured In one evening. and
then to the cider duck and walrus haunts in
tho neighborhood OF Littleton Island. Here.
however. only Ave walrus and few ducks
were obtained on account Of the weather. A
look was taken along tho ice from Cairn Point
TO Cane isabella. and 40 far IL has been undis-
turbed this season.
I'VE then visited the site OF Polaris house
and obtained q number Of relics. We then
steamed IN to the bird clihs OF Hakluyt Island
with the intention OF obtaining birds. but
attn south wester made this i'm practicable, and
the ship was run into Uhlrchs Bay for rein
deer Seventeen OF these were brought in In
one nights hunt and the meat and skins and
ths waIrus war. hrought ~ tha IT, ~, .Ia
house.
An ths members OF the party ara IN tbe
best OF health and spirits. and. with the
sighty-iour dogs. some twenty tons OF dog
leea, ana dozen or more SENDER Tor the
meat supply OF the party: tho prospects are
the nsrt ronth,s hmntira vii, ada az ,enst