The Portland daily press., 1894-05-04
TO GO AFTER PEARY.
The Arrangements For the Expedition to
Be Made In Philadelphia to Day.


Register of Probate Mr.. E. G. Reynolds
left for New York and Philadelphia yes
terday to meet the agents of the steamer
Falcon, and Prof. Halprin of the Phila-
delphia Academy of Natural Sciences 10
order to arrange for the Peary expedl-'
ton.
The Falcon, Capt. Bartlett, is the same
steamer that conveyed the Peary party
to Greenland in 1893. The steamer will
be chartered for three months, and will
leave ST. Johns. Newfoundland, probably
the second W eek in July. Prof. Heilprin,
who was to have been in charge OF the
expedition will be unable to go, owing
to the i'll health of a member or MS
family, but it is practically settled that
Mr.. Henry G. Bryant of Philadelphia,
personal friend of Prof. Heilprin, and
favorably known to Lieut.. Peary as
having been member of the relief ex-
petition of 1892 and second IN
command, will take charge.
He is a young man, an extensive travel
Ter known to the work of exploration in
Africa and Labrador The party will
probably be of about the same size as
that of the relief party of 1892, but that
is not yet fully determined. The party
will probably go to Ellesmere Land and
Jones Sound and probably do some ex-
pIoration work in those places.
. The idea of Lieut.. Peary is that the
HQrhnr
Bowdoin Bay in Inglefeld Gulf, (where
his winter quarters were established) the
first day of Septem Der, where he will
take charge of the expedition. Lieut..
Peary planned wheh he left to visit the
various ports on his return trip that he
visited on the outward voyage, and UNI
less some change takes place in those
plans Portland may hope to be visited.
The house in which Lieutenant and
Mrs. Perry have passed the last year will
be brought on the Falcon with them
and will be exhibited here.
The New York un.learns that the par
ty will leave New York about June "a
on one of the. passenger steamers sailing
to St. Johns. At that port the steam
whaler Falcon will be in readiness to
sail. north with the party on or about
July 4. The first stop will be made at
Godhaven on Drisco Island. Continuing
north, Melville bay will be crossed as
quickly as the condition of the ice per-
mits, and brief visit will be made to
the settlement of primitive Eskimos,
near Cape York. Then a direct run will
be made to tine Peary headquarters at
Bowdoin bay, in Ingefeld gulf, in lati-
tude 77:43 which point it is hoped will
be reached by July, 25. Lieutenant
Peary and the members of his inland
party will not yet have returned from
their long sledge journey to the North,
but it is deemed advisable to acquaint
the memb be RS of the party at Anniversa-
ry Lodge in Bowdoin bay of the pres
ence of the Falcon, and at the same time
deliver the mail and gain assurance of
the safety of all hands.
AS Lieutenant Peary is not expected to
return to his head quarters before the
last of August, the ship will be availa-
BILE for purposes of original research and
exploration for nearly month. IF the
conditions are favorable, the plans of
the auxiliary expedition contemplate an
examination of the Bafin Bay shore OF
Ellesmere Land with view to looking
for records of the two ill fated Swedish
misunderstanding and Kallstenius-
whose schooner was wrecked on the Car
ey Islands in the summer of 1892, and
e. icIa
which was recovered by Scotch whalor
in October of last year, saying that they
proposed to seek. refuge. among the Eski-
mos of Ellesmere Land.
Jones's Sound will be penetrated for
greater distance than has yet been at.
tempted, and if the weather and the
condition of thesice are propitious, it is
more than probable that Mr.. Bryant and
his party will attempt to examine and
chart the 500 miles of unknown coast
line, forming the northeast shore of
Jones's Sound and the western border
of Ellesmere Land. This triangular
area of 1000 square miles known as
Ellesmere Land, is one of the few con-
siderable territories, the outlines of
which have not yet been ascertained by
white men.
Reputable Arctic authorities affirm
that tribe of Eskimos live on Files
mere Land, the members of which have
never come in contact with civilized
man. A study of the habits and mode
of life of these isolated northern natives
would prove most interesting and in
structive from the standpoint of an
ethnologist.
The ship is due at Bowdoin bay. how
ever, on Septemhe 1, and nothing in
the way of side expeditions will be al
lowed to'interfere with the main object
of the voyage, the safe return of the
Peary party to the United States. he
auxiliary party will not exceed seven in
number. Some of these have Halready
been dhoser. but their names are with
held for the present. 1t is known, how
ever that DIR. Axel Ohlin, Swedish