The morning call., 1894-09-16

Teary, Mrs. Peary and her maid, T. j.
Entrekin of West Chester, Pa; Elvend
Astrup of Norway; DR.. Edward Vincent
of Illinois; J.W. Dawson of Austin, Mimi. :;
north of Greenland, in its efforts to
exceed the latitude of Lockwood
and BrainarG, the supporting party
will return southwark along the east coast
F. w. Stokes, an artist. of Philadelphia :;
E. Is. Baldwin, a meteorologist, of Nash
vile, Tenn; George II. Carr of Chicago /;
George a. Clark of Brookline. Mass. :;
Hugh j. Lee of Meriden, Conn. and Matt
HinsOm. a cOlored boy.
Considering the admitted failure made
by Peary, the following from the pen of
General A. w. Greedy, himself an Arctic
explorer, written in June last, will be of
interest:
Peary followed in the tracks and after
the methods of his first expedition, during
which. first to cross the inland ice of
Greenland. ne travelled from his station at
Mccormick Bay to Independence Bay, SO
81 north, $40 8 west, Oh the east coast of
Greenland. The termination of the inland
ice and the separation of Greenland from
the land to the northward, which was dis
covered by my own expedition, caused
Peary to fail 10 his acknowledged attempt
TO exceed the farthest north reached by
Lockwood and BraiDard, May Is, 1882.
Peary had been winlering in North
western Greenland on the shores of Iugle-
field Gulf, above the seventv-seventh
parallel, among the Etah Esquimau.
He contemplated very early start about
the middle of March, and doubtless is at
inn yinU a1,-
easy journey over the smooth road afforded
by the inland ice to Cape Independence.
1t will taen become necessary for him,
with a selected party, IT, take to the sea
ice, where his methods of travelling must
conform TO those of his predecessors
While the main party under Peary is en-
deavoring to outline the coast to the
to the neighborhoOd of Cape Bismarck and
Mount Peterman, of Koldeway's expedi-
tiOn, whence it will return direct across
Greenland to lnglefeld Gulf. a steam
whaler going n0rthward this summer will
there await the return of the whole party
and bring them back to ST. Johns, New
foundand When last heard from. at the
end of August. 1898, Peary and his wife
and party were comfortably housed In
their Greenland encamDment, with win
ter's supply OF walrus meat already in
stock for their canine companions.
The chances of success for Peary pri-
mariy depend on bis ability to accumulate
a large food supply At Cape Independence
for his advance party,-men and dogs-or
on the very prOblematcal chance of secur-
ing an abundant supply of game. 1t will
be recalled that Peary lost three-fuurths
of bis dogs in his previous journey TO this
point in 1891. aud few besiues experienced
Arctic travellers realize how near his party
approached disaster, for it was only the
supply of muskoxen killed Unexpectedly
at his farihest that secured his safe re-
treat.
Experience will do much to facilitate
Peary's travel, and It is TO be expected that
he will be able to trace a considerable por-
tion of the unknown coast between Cape
Independence and Cape Bismarck, to the
sehtl Tits, Rp tfsF o,sIer band. extremely
doubtful if he ever passes beyond the
farthest charted on his map, ninety miles
beyond his point of 1891, and this would
carry him almost directly to the east. The
chances are about one in ten that he
reaches the eighty-third parallel.