New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-06
LIEUT.. PEARY IN GREENLAND
HIS LONG VOYAGE ENDED.
HI EXPEDITION LANDED AT BOWDOIN BAY
By THE FALCON.

FOR THE LONG NORTHERN wINTER-TO
START On THE JOURNEY TOWARD THE
POLE UPON THE OPENING OF
sPRING-XO TRACES FOUND OF
YEIHoEFF AND TIE LOST
NORWEGIAN SCIENTISTS.
ST. Johns y F. Sept 5.-1he steamer Falcon
returned to this port this afternoon from Bowdoln
Bay, West Greenland having successfully accom-
! pshed the landing of the Peary expedition AT that
! place. The Falcon left here on July -, bound
for LIB ador 10 purchase the dogs nee ssary Tor the
success Of the expedition. She arrived at Battle
! llarbor the 18th, and cruscd along the Lapra-
dor coast, calling at Turnadik, fopedale, Okek
and Cape Mudford, meeting with but Indifferent
success, in the purchase of dogs, and after getting
only twenty left Labrador. On the 22d she ar
rived a, the Greenland coast, and on the @'th
-four donlScys belonging 10 the expedition peristei
of exposure
The Falcon sailed along the Greenland coast.
calling at IIolStcinberg, Disco, Upernavik Cape
York, IIostcinhohe and Dalrymple, getting the
rest of the dog,, needed, a greater number being
necessary because of the loss of the donkeys.
Altogether the party got eighty-seven dogs At
Cape York Pcary got five native ESquimauX to
assist in caring for the dogs ani to do general
work The Falcon arrived at her destination on
August g. The voyage was fairly pleasant, rs
little ice and no bcrgs encountered She
made the passage across Melville Bay in twenty
four hours and fifty minutes. This is the quick
est trip ever made across the bay by eleven houis
Arriving at her destination, the Falcon cast an
chor in Il harbor selected and named by P"ary
Falcon Ilarbor, thirty miles north Of his former
headquarters The party Immediately began
landing the stores and the house The house was
Immediately set up after which the stores were
packed in and about it. On August l. the ship
started north on warus hunt, Peary, Entrekin |
and Vincent accompanying her to get enough |
walrus to supply the dogs with winter food. They |
spent four days the ship, and got beyond Lit |
Teton Island, eighty miles north, and then went |
within fifteen miles of Cape Sabine when
ice pack was met with and thi. being mpenc
trable the ship was forced TO return Thirty-one
walrus were killed. their edible meat weighing
tons The party reached their head
quarters on the 18th, and landed the meat and
few stores that had not been taken out of
he ship before
he Fncon started on h"r return here on the
Goth Then the house WAS nearly completed
and the party were living in it, Several men
were employed daily in carrying the stores from
he headquarters T. an interior ice camp, where
they were cached in rcadlnes, for the great il
land expedition hrNt sprins. Tn" work was
difficult. and only on" trip could be mldr diliN.
a, with In" burro> and dog. The + main '"r
,f the party were engaged IN completing the
lou-e and arranging the stores. II found
hat the house used by the last expedition had
been torn down and used for various purposes ,
~ the natives
4 whole colony of natives living on Ingeiied
iulf moved near Tcary 10 remain with him I
uring his stay Pcary proposes 10 occupy the :
im. tiil winter in exploring the adjacent country
nd Immediately upon the opening Of spring !
,ill start on hi. great overland journey across {
r,~.nland TO the northern point reached by him I
at year on Independence Bay. and thence will
roc,d as far north II il possible to get. even
D the Pole i,elr. though this part of tn" plan ,
ikcl, to h. ABANDONED ~ h. has decided TO y
nturn next summer. and not 10 r"m1in until q
sgj. ~ was hlS original intention. II has been ,
,.initrly settled that th" Falcon Will return l.
II him next year 3
Exhaustive nIdiiies concerning NcrhGch. who !
rs supposed TO hnyc bccd killed last year by =
illing into a crcyass". were made ny the party, i
NJ nothing cpull be learned Of him. and now "
o doubt remains 10 his fit". Search was {
lsp made for the TIVE Norwrnan scientists, k"l- II
crnuus and Blorling who left her" early lat >
rnr in the schooner Ripple to explore smiths -
pund Nothing j. Known Gf them at any of tn, p
oints touched, 80 it l. probable that they AMI p
Ic crew of four men all drowned. ri
The Falcon mad" Il good passage, ana arrlNrl -
rrn without injury. Her northern pa>si-r Wd'
ma .companird by any special incident All the
,rty werr wril and in good spirits al the TN" d,
ie left Falcon Ilarb0r. T.,
Duc incident OF tins expedition will he th' !, IT
nth Of a child Late in September Mr.. PearA II
- prcicd {, become a mother. II VIII D me
wl.it child born in this latitude: In fact. IT. Il,
NJ -" BON further north tlIn the hablttilon OF "
~ human being OF the present day. ID
The party staying in Gr"nland until nest year h'
=. ~ follows: Lieutenant x. f. Pony and Mrs. il
s"phnr Peary Mrs. Gross Mrs Prarys -
aid DR. T.. Vincent, surgeon: Mr~srs. y. j. Eair'- "
II, second in command. and Ervind A>trup; IL
: Swain, secretary: George II. Clarke, taNl- w
rmist t. B Baldwin. mcteorologiSt: i. W. de
okcs artist George II. Carr. Hugh Lee and j. Nv
Davidson. Mrs Hodge, PearNs Stenographer, iis
turned on the Falcon. cll
Pcarv sent letters highly commencing the man "a
cmcnt of the steamer by taptain Bartlett. NV
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