Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-16
After a Series of Thrilling Expe-
 riences, Return.
TERRIBLY COLD WEATHER
And Storms Prevent Much Progress, Though a Great
 Deal Was Accomplished.

ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 15.-The Peary main and auxiliary expeditions, with all well on board, arrived today from Falcon harbor, which they left on August 26. Peary, with Lee and Henson as volunteers, remain at the headquarters at Falcon har- bor to complete their explorations next season. Most of the expedition last fall and winter was devoted to preparations for the inland ice journey to Independence bay, which began on March with party of eight men, twelve sledges and ninety-two dogs. Five natives also assisted over the first two or three days of the march.
 On April Is Peary, Baldwin, Entriken and Clarke, with twenty four dogs and two sledges, arrived at Anniversary lodge, having advanced in thirty-one days 134 miles, and there cached their remaining supplies and equipments, leaving Astrup. Lee and Davidson in charge, Dr. Vincent having been previously sent back incapac- itated by illness or injury from further service.
 Bad weather and succession of storms culminated on March 19 hile twenty three forty miles from Anniversary lodge, at an elevation of 55Oo feet. In the equinoxial storm, which con tinued for four days, the temperature averaged from 45 10 55 degrees below zero, and reached a minimum of 50 degrees, and the wind for thirty-four consecutive hoars blew forty eight miles per hour. The com bination of temperature and the velocity of the wind, it is believed, will break the record and far exceed that sustained by any other Arctic expedition. All of the ex- plorers escaped serious injury except Da- vidson, whose left foot was frozen, but has since fully recovered. Many of the dogs were frozen solid, and others had to be chopped out of the ice. },
 Messrs. Peary, Baldwin, Entriken and Clarke pushed on, and in fourteen days were eighty five miles further. The maxi- mum day's march was eighteen miles, when the plague having carried of many dogs and Entriken being unfit for travel and the party 80 reduced by the hardships they had undergone, the plans for the sum- mer could not possibly be carried out, and only one.f fourth of the distance to Inde- pendence bay had been accomplished, when 1t had been expected that they would reach that point ten days earlier. It was there- fore decided to return.
 The dogs contin ued to die on the home- ward march, compelling the abandonment of the sledges during the last days of May. On the trip they surveyed and mapped a hitherto unknown coast line to Melville bay for 15O miles. Messrs. Peary and Lse are the first white men to see, locate and measure the historic iron meteorite near Cape York, which they will bring home next year.
 MT. Entriken and Dr. Vincent made a sledge journey to, Littleton island, and would have reached Kane's headquarters, but for open water.
 Lieutenant and Mrs. Peary made sledge journey to Olrike bay. Miss Ahnigito Peary, who was year old last Wednesday, with an Eskimau nurse, the first of her tribe to come south of the arctic circle, re- turned with the party. Lieutenant Peary accompanied the Falcon as far as Cape York, hoping to send home a meteorite, but the ice made this impossible.
 He left the ship Tuesday morning, Au- gust 2S, of Petowiak glacier, thirty five miles north of Cape York, in an open whale boat with Henson and a crew of five natives, bound for Falcon harbor, 150 miles distant. Lee had been in charge during his absence. When last seen the boat was standing on her course, under full sail, with fair wind.
 A tidal wave on October 31, 1898, de- stroyed tie launch and dory and swept away more than half the oil supply, of which 8 portion was subsequently, recovered. The burros, carrier pigeons and launch, Gen. eral Wistar, proved of little service to the explorers. The party at the lodge is amply supplied and provisioned for year, and will be supported on inland ice next spring by the natives.
 The auxiliary expedition, despite the fact that ice was heavier and more general than TOT many years, CCOulplisucu uuCu im- portant work-all that was in any manner practicable.
 Communication with Peary was not opened up until August l, and Falcon harbor was not reached until the 20th. Carey island and Clarence head were thor oughly searched, and the death of the Swedish explorers, Bjorling and Calles- tous, settled. Relics were brought from Carey island and a skeleton, supposed to be that of @ sailor, was properly inferred. Mir. Ohlin, the Swedish representative with the auxiliary expedition, returns direct from Disco to Copenhagen. The ice. also prevented the proposed exploration oui Ellesmere island, but the auxiliary party gathered much valuable scientific data, made careful study of many important glaciers and obtained much new and valua-1