The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-19
PEARY'S EXPEDITIONS.
What This Explorer Has Accom-.
plished IN His Trips North.
Has Spent Over Two Yerrs in tho North
ern Part of observation-disclosures Ut
ter Failure of the Expedition
Terrible Experiences

Heath by starvation is the experience
of Lieut. Peary and his two compan.
ions who have spent over two years in
though it was over six weeks since bis
rescue by the relief steamer Kite when
she reached the port of St Johns, y.
E., the other day, every line and Inca
ment of his face gave evidence of the
terrible sufferings he has endured dur
ing the last six months. When they
were taken on board the Kite, Peary
and his two companions, Hugh j. Lee,
and the colored servant, Matt Henson,
were terribly emaciated Lee had 10
be carried on board and Peary was
fearfuIly depleted in strength. In the
two years that Peary was in Greenland
he rade two ATTEMPTS to cross the
island; last year he failed, this year he
succeeded. That is about the net re-
suit of the expedition.
1t was in June, 1891, when Lieut.
Peary made his first important expedi-
ton to Greenland He was accom-
panied on that first voyage and jour
ney By his wife, and by Langdon Glib
son, E. Astrup, DR.. F. A. Cook and
Matt Henson. They wintered in Tugle-
field, where no special hardships were
experienced, although several OF the
party were afflicted with the grip.
Mrs. Peary bettled through the dreary
winter days with the full energy of the
male members of the expedition.
The farthest point north was reached
July 4, 1892, and the bay upon which
Lieut. Peary camped he named indie
pendence bay Returning to his head
quarters, he was brought home by the
Kite on September IL, 1892. and fred
with the desire for further discoveries
he organized another expedition that
winter to go north the following sum-
mer
He started in July, 1898, with party
of eleven persons, besides his wife and
nurse. The Falcon, sister ship of the
Kite, but larger, was chartered to take
him to his destination. harbcr in
Bowdoin bay, on the northern side OF
the gulf, which he named Falcon har-
Dor. A unique feature of the expedi-
ton was that Mrs. Pearv gave birth to
child September u, 1872. The party
spent the fab and winter preparing
for the great expedition of the coming
spring.
Peary decided to start as early as
prudent after the ending of the arctic,
night. This occurred February Ia. and
on March the expedition started. 1t.
consisted of eight men and ninetv-two
dogs hauling the sledges of food, and
was intended TO proceed without stop
TO independence bay. Here it was to
divide into two parties, Peary and
three others going pOlarward over tho
land masses, while the remaining four
the survey of the northeast
coast as far south as Cape bismarck
Both parties were TO make their way
back to headquarters by the most con-
venient routes and to be there not
later than August -, 1894. This pro-
jected expedition was a complete fail
ure. From that time until the arrival
Of the Falcon. August 3. 1894. to bring
them home, minor expeditions Of little
were undertaken about the
coast in various directions
Peary decided not to return in the
steamer, but to remain north another
year, and one member. of the party,
Hugh J Lee, of Meriden. Conn. volun-
teered to remain with him. and Matt
Henson, Peary's colored servant, also
agreed TO stop. The rest of the party,
Mrs. Peary and her baby, re-
turned in the Falcon, which landed
them in Philadelphia. Mrs. Peary
bravely took to the lecture stage in the
United States last winter and accumu-
lated good sum toward equipping
relief expedition 20 60 north for her
husband this summer. Her efforts were
ably supplemented by several geograph-
zeal societies and sufficient sum was
realized 70 charter the Kite.
The starting of the expedition last
July, the rescue Of the intrepid ex-
plorer just when death seemed certain.
Ind his return once more to wife.
friends and civilization. ends another
thrilling chapter in the already event
tul life of this persistent searcher for
be north pole.