St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-09-27


the north was Is miles, and we
had to take a slower pace home. We
reached Anniversary Lodge on April
20.
Then we tried to do what work
we could in the south. AS early as
possible after his return to winter
quarters Astrnp set out for Cape
York, $50 miles to the south, and he
was fortunate in being able, early in
May, to complete the survey of the
northern coast ofMelville Bay. Most
of the shore line of this bay, as is
we'll known, had not been determin
ed by earlier explorers.
Finding Ross,s Iron Mountain
"On May 16 1 set out with Lee in
search of Ross Iron Mountains,
Near Cape York. After a journey of
three weeks, during which the wealth
er was necessarily stormy, we re-
turned, having found the famous
stones, which 1 photographed and
measured. l built cairn and de-
posted the record of the first white
man who had looked upon them.
When the Falcon took my party on
board to return south | accompan-
led her to Cape York and hoped to
send one of the meteorites home by
her, but the ice prevented the ship
from making land. l hope l may
have better success next season.
The Fall and Winter Work.
early last fall we carried supplies
up on the ice cap for the spring sledg
campaign. We were assisted in this
work by the natives and the burros
or Mexican donAeys that had TAX
en- north. We were, however, only
able to carry the supplies 26 miles
inland.
Il Big Tidal Wave.
"On Oct. 81 we met with quite a
disaster. A tidal wave swept up
Bowdoin Bay and washed up high
on the beach where our house had
been built. My steam launch, Gen.
Wistar, was stove in. The whale
boat Faith, which had been part of
my equipment on my expedition Of
1912. was wrecked. NY dories
were also destroyed. All the barrels
of kerosene had been scattered along
the shore at some distance from one
another. They were all swept into
the sea, and only one-half of them
were recovered. 1t was thus impos-
sible to make use of the electric light
plant during the winter.
Eve occupied the winter in MAX
ing preparations for the northern
sledge trip p. The manufacture of
sledges was one Of our chief occupa-
tons. We made sledge journeys by
moonlight to secure food for our
large number of dogs, and about 700
miles were thus covered. My burros
did not live through the winter, and
proved to be of little use. The car
rier pigeons were destroyed by hawks
and Eskimo dogs.
The spring and summer before the
Falcon came to take US home were
devoted to surveying the neighbour
ing bays and hunting deer. Two
hundred and fifty deer were killed by
the party. The auxiliary party on
the Falcon was prevented by heavy
ice from opening up communication
was not able to push her way
through the ice up Bowdoin Bay and
reach Anniversary Lodge until Aug.
20.
The Lost Swedish Explorers.
The auxiliary party made a trip
to Ellesmere Land and searched the
Carey Islands for traces of the lost
Swedish explorers Bjorling and Kali
stenius. They found some relics OF
them and the skeleton of a man
on the Carey Islands, probably a
sailor. They found no trace Of the
lost explorers at Cape Faraday or
Clarence Head on Ellesmere Land,
where it was hoped by the friends of
the explorers that they had taken
refuge. Jones Sound, south of Files
mere Land, was blocked with ice,
and it was impossible to push into
it, so no explorations could be made
in that direction.
Mrs. Peary will return home with
a daughter. aged one year, and ac-
companied by Eskimo nurse from
Bowdoin Bay.
Il shall make another attempt on
the ice cap next spring 1 shall util-
ize the Eskimos as supporting par
ty. They have done me good ser
vice throughout my sojourn in north
west Greenland, and l believe l will
find them effective helpers on the in
land ice. have ample supplies ofall
sorts, including plenty ofcoal for Win
ter. All the party are in good
health.
Il am now, on Aug. %, about to
leave the Falcon off Petawick Glac-
ier, little north OF Cape York. The
Falcon will proceed home, and shall
return i'll a whaleboat with Matt
Henson and my Eskimo crew to An
niversary Lodge. R. E. PEARY."
MULES IN THE MINES.
1t is common affair for mules
to be imprisoned for years in the linn