The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-09-23
Weak With Hunger They CEASED the
Musk Ok.
CACHES ON THE ICE CAP WERE
LOST.

How the Explorer Passed His Time After
the Falcon Left Him Year Ago-One
Misfortune Followed Another-Fi Fidelity
of the Natives of That Inhospitable
Region-Heroism of Lee and Henson.
New York, September 23.-The Sun
prints this morning a dispatch from St
Johns, Newfoundland, where the relief
ship Kite arrived Saturday with the
Peary party ali safe. Peary himself sends
to the Sun his own account of the ex-
pedition, which is as follows: The third
Petawak Glacier camped near the head
of Olriks Bay, in Inglefeld Gulf to hunt
deer. We had encountered but little ice
and the voyage northward to Inglefeld
Gulf in whaleboat had not been
arduous. A short stop was made at the
Bird Cliffs of Saunders Island to shoot.
We reached Olriks Bay just in time to
escape furious southeaster of three
days. duration, which kept my hunters
imprisoned under the shelter of rocks un-
able to get back to camp. The whaleboat
had to be nearly filed with stones to pre-
vent its boing blown away. We reached
Anniversary Lodge (Peary's head
quarters at the head of Bowdoin Bay,
Inglefield Gulf on September g. with five
hundred pounds of venison, birds and
hare Bowdoin Bay was chaos Of ice
bergs and large pans of ice cemented by
heavy young ice The boat was left
several miles from the Lodge. Evidently
the season would be very short. There
was no time to be lost in obtaining my
winters supply of meat and getting it to
the Lodge before navigation closed.
I had intended Immediately upon my
return to take Mr.. Lee and the natives
with me to Kangardluksoah hunting,
but his lonely, anxious vigil during my
absence had left Lee in no condition 30
go or to be left alone again. Matt Hensen
left with the party of natives twenty
hours after our arrival and returned on
September 16 with six deer and several
hare. On the following day with Lee
went to Karnak (near the entrance to
Bowdo1n Bay), whence I took my other
whaleboat and all the able-bodied native
men in the settlement to Cape. Cleveland
hunting walrus. The natives, with
boat | had loaned them, had already
killed twenty, and the animals were be-
coming somewhat shy, but harpooned
and secured seven before the rapidly
forming young ice compelled q retreat.
The young ice and the head wind de-
layed our return until September N,
when one boat load of meat was landed
at Anniversary Lodge: a second was
1,o1, tvyn
and one while was at Cape Cleveland
were the only days during the season
when the whaleboat could reach the
Lodge without being dragged over the
ice. On October l the bay was frozen
over for the winter.
THE ICE CAP CACHES LOST.
. September was cold and stormy. The
winters meat supply for ourselves and
the dogs being assured, my caches Of
provisions on the ice cap next demanded
our attention Two days after the last
load of walrus had been secured, Mr.. Lee.
with Matt Henson and the native
Huktah, left the Lodge to dig out these
caches and rebuild them for the winter.
Four days later they returned and re-
ported their inability to find the caches
owing to the extraordinary depth of new
snow on the ice cap. This was very
serious news, and after the dogs had been
thoroughly rested and fed started my
self for the ice cap with Henson and one
Eskimo. AS we reached the vicinity OF
the f]rst cache it began showing, render
ina Immediate search impossible The
Eskimo, fearful of storm, slipped away
unobserved and started back for the
Lodge, which he reached four days later,
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