The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-09-02
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the dogs refused to work, so heavy was
the pull. After some days travel they
came again to the hard snow crust and
made an average of 20 miles at each
journey
In order to get around the fords
and glaciers which indent the western
shore the explorers made long detours
eastward which consumed in the aggre-
gate several days journey On June
Sth storm set in, which caused lay |
up of two days. When the weather
cleared, Peary found that they were on
the southern edge Of a trough of a gla.
cier basin that could never be crossed. !
Beyond to the northwest in the intend |
ed route, as far as the fieldglass could |
reach, the slopes were Crevassed and |
broken by what appeared huge breakers
of the sea suddenly concealed into ice.
Two days were lost in another detour
to the east and southeast in order TO
avoid the trap. In crossing the icy
slopes they were met by furious winds
that strained their sledges and harness,
often threw down the dogs and again
and again threatened to sweep all
hands into the awful depths of the gla
cier beneath them. The best dog of
the team was injured in the struggle on
the glacier slopes SO that he bad to be
killed. Two other dogs, also of the
best, fell on the edge Of the crevasse
and went down the full length of their
traces, There they hung without foot
hold and no support but their trace
straps, until Peary and Astrup secured
the sledges and team and holsted the
struggling creatures to the surface.
When the explorers again reached
the open course to the northwest, they
were 5000 feet above the sea. A fog
next delayed them for IS hours, and
after it cleared away they sped on rapid.
ly for some days. The weather was
that Of warm June, and the thermome-
ter registered as high as II degrees.
Snow that fell turned into slush, and
the party was stopped two days by
heavy roads when the dogs couldn't
pull the sledges through the freezing,
sticky snow On the goth of June they
reached the eightysecond parallel and
that day discovered that the land Of
the northwestern coast line, which had
been constantly in view, was visible in
the north, the northeast and also in a
DETECTING line to the southeast. Like
the sight of strange grasses floating on
the sea to Columbus, indicating land
ahead and a new continent, those new
and bold coast lines, dark red precipices
and mountains capped with icy domes
half hidden in the clouds revived the
heart of Peary, and he turned from the
northward course to the east. In that
direction lay all that remained of the
secrets of Greenland All else was an
open book The surmises Of DIR. Kane
and Lockwood, made from observations
taken on the ice pack off those red
mountainous bluffs, were facts to Peary
and Astrup. Greenland has no north
beyond the eighty second parallel.
The full mystery was cleared up OF
July 4th, for on that day the explorer
stood on the abrupt headlands Of
great bay indenting the northeastern
extremity of Greenland The bluffs
rising abruptly 1000 feet from tn,
water, were almost entirely free from
snow The land is of reddish brown
and covered wirh debris of the glacia
epoch. Flowers, insects and bird
abound, also grasses and musk oxen
Traces of foxes, hares and other ami
mails were seen. The bay was coveret
with the winters ice, which was rapid,
melting and would soon set free tn
vast icebergs held as by anchors in it
icy letters.
Dogs and men were treated to ;
Fourth of July feast upon musk o
steaks and joints, snow birds and pre-
served vegetables and fruits.
The highest point reached was lat
tude 81 degrees 81 minutes, longitude
"a degrees. After passing five days il
observations and burying in cairn
record of their discoveries to tell tn
world the wonderful story which thei
lips might never be spared to reveal
Peary and Astrup started to return oil
July 9.
Pearys return route was farther in
land than the journey out At times
they were on the summit OF pldtSd
5000 feet above the sea, For tw'
weeks their pathway was so dense tina
at times the head dog teams were in
visible from the sledges, and steerin
was done by taking compass direction
of the wind. Once they were delaye'
two days and nights by fierce storm
of snow, but in the main the journe
was more rapid than it had been north
ward, although the hard snow crust ha'
been turned into sush by the intens
summer heat.
The dog teams had been reduced b
accident and disease to five animals
the large sledge had been dlscsrde
with a great weight of provisions tina
had spoiled in the dry heat Of the rock
headlands The sledge that bore tn
remaining food and equipments weighe
but twelve pounds. The explorers an
their faithful dumb companions as we
were sorely crippled from the har
knocks and bruises received in weatI
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