Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-08-14

Mich Peary Is the pioneer in
n ,6e ,liscoyerer Of new method
"a rslaroh After countless shipl
@nrht and held fast in ice or had
y ,pd been abandoned-their oc-
Am held prisoners under hard
"A s..na human strength to endure
"a 4. rsrsse sailing in polar seas" was
KIM term for "stuck In arctic ice,p
.sspron the idea of overland explora'
n y tsncgs upon inland snowtields.
f !. Sjts generating to the southern
\ \ ,spposcd, OF the polar sea slsirted
~ Il Greenland, the navigatora
n l,nr slaht of her steepi icy bluffs
,lrsrs returning with the certainty
IN Greenland was no less mystic
\ ,h.n the Arctic ocean, no less mac
1. also and no less dangerous for ex.
IA That was because they looked
4 inu the ocean level or the icefields
X On the sea,
. artic yoyagers accepted without
4 "a he notion that long distance tray.
A n ne lilgh attitudes OF interior Green.
HS,s physical impossibility; that tho
!. n cNas and piled up rocks, the gla.
a vi,h their gigantic ice walls and
Ia hssures as seen from the sounds ~
Tween the sayenty-ninth and eighty
II barallels, would rcpulse all land
.it'ous or II the interior should once
atl twould present difficulties eqaal
M greater than those of the terrible
A Tothls idea Peary said NO." and
syul Bis view by a reconnaissance half
.rvss tho island near the seventeen
diulSsj. lie found that beyond til.
j a issare ice Of the bluffs there was
.rsnsiye plateau covered with leve'
il md hc'rcasoned that if Greenland
I|ss 10 The pole, as the voyagers de
! Greenland might be the true path
(. d pols; that II there Is an open polni
niehi wash tho northern shores Of
sand and could be discovered by the
nulA
blAs time Of starting on the inland
N n Apdl, 1852, there was nothing %
n y noah Greenland expedition to dis
i.Aaii from scores that had gone be
Tie steamer Kite landed the party
! shorts Of Mccormick bay. Smiths
iga below the seventy-eighth paral
u. summer Of 1891. Peary's leg wa,
" thetiller OF the ship as she strug,
tDagh the Ice to make the harbor,
aszssed on going ashore and winter
sa ID crdCr to get seasoned for tbs
xxi lnney, The real start began May
Z On that day Pcary, with
~, I sledges and 10 dogs, stood
lalrlg whIteslope of interior Green
400 isst above the sea, aud set theii
nnstAvsa They found that the red
Wa hsna cutof sight by great
q apd 10 and that the ice was
ewiA ahita, finn crust OF snow. On
.i'i made prcgsss ut tho rate of 10 to
ue pay EharOthpld back by storms.
sucss earae storm from the driv.
'aov asa keen, cutting wind wns
l9t Eea this one OF the party was
= 'Issdd to net as watchman over
Y NE animals were embarrassed
sung 70 stakes driven in the snow,
.nls Storm, IN the absence of their
v so'ld howl and fight and tear
s's'lo9se Asyoracious.s wolves
W v. Isally what they are-they would
W harness, the fur sleeping bagi
T. !. aI,o'eIs and everything in way 81
y ,la' was within reach unless it
s.is IN heavy tin cans.
~, mall as 1t was, was subdivid.
a.luoids glacier, 1870 miles from
camp. Two were to return to
eas Lieutenant Peary and Evind
ssaucated Norwegian, to explora
1'as and Icy north alone. There
3 M said ut that handshaking
WV had been detailed TO GO back
.. ~. awe while their com pRnions
+ - Nams nurthward and began