The Portland daily press., 1897-07-17
PEARYs EXPEDITION.
What the Explorer Has to Say About His
Coming Trip.

Slldll llOU INV pOElh Lay uIlp W
Greenland until Saturday noon," said
Lieut.. Peary.
"The various parties which will accom-
| pany me on the trip are ready to begin
the journey. Twill go first to Sydney,
Cape Breton, where the coal supply for
the trip will be taken in. Then 1 shall
steam on across the Gulf of st. Lawrence
and through the Straits of Belle Isle, up
the Labrador coast to Turnavik Island.
| cat that point the Hope will stop for a
short time, and the mail will be put
ashore to be sent home. Leaving Turnavik
island, we will steam to Baffin Land, on
Resolution Island.
"The Wrightington whaling party and
outfit will be landed there, and also
Russell W. Porters party. There will be
nine in the party, and they go to hunt
walrus, bears, etc. From there we go
across to the Greenland coast. Prof.
Hitchcock 'sYglacier studying party will
land somewhere near the southern point
of Greenland, but it has not yet been de-
cided where.
"Prof. Hitchcock and one of his party
| will spend the winter in Greenland.
| Further up the coast Prof. Shuchet and
Prof. White, who will go in the interest
of the National Museum to search for
fossils, will be landed. Mr.. Hugh Lee
and his young bride will land here and
remain until my return from further
north. Mr.. Lee was in my last expedi-
ton. He was married but week ago
and will spend his honeymoon in Green
| land
"Robert Stern, of the Geographical.
Survey, will be left at Wilcox Head,
| where he will gather chronological matter.
Then the real business of my "trip will
come in. From Wilcox Head shall go to
Cape York, which is in rs north latitude.
"From this point to point about 79
degrees north latitude are the Esquimaux
These are scattered about in every little
bay and inlet, and my business will be to
find them and talk with them. I am
personally acquainted with every family
in the tribe. I know just the men want
for the expedition, but the trouble is that
they never stay more than year in one
place. 1t will take good while to find
just the ones want to go with me.
"When find them l shall explain that
next year want them to be at certain
point on the Greenland coast when the ice
breaks up. They will be ready to take
ship with their wives, their effects their
dogs and sledges, and go with me then to
point at about SO north latitude, which
I expect to make my base of supplies for
the expedition next year.
"By doing this, you see, I will save a
good deal of time. If did not go this
year to notify my Esquimaux, 1 might
lose whole year. I should have to go
around the coast looking them up and
thus waste the whole open season. Now
shall have them all ready to go aboard
the ship when call for them and can
then push on to my base of supplies.
"There l shall establish regular Esqui-
maux village. such as they live in further
south. shall have eight or ten families
with me. That means about twenty
people, for mean to take all young
married men with me. I shall not take
those VINO nave children.
GAS said before the families will live
just as they live in their own habitations,
and from this poin. shall carry on the
work propose to do. This will be the
completion of full map of the region,
and also the reaching of the North Pole
cat this point I will have five years.
provisions. The ship will carry me from
the United States in the summer, land
me and return. Then the next year it
will come back and try to reach me. 1t
may not succeed. If it does not, all right.
1t will return home and try again the
next year, when it should succeed. ex-
pect to be able to reach the pole. 1t is
about four hundred miles from this point,
not long distance when you say it
quickly, but considerable distance when
you get in those ATTITUDES.
Mrs. Peary and my three-year-old
daughter will go with me this year. My
daughter, you know, was born away up
| there in about 70 north latitude. / expect
we shall return, either to Boston or New
York, about September 25, calling on the
"oJ AL olOSO pol tlCo WO oIoPPOu eliOiS
| the route''
"What do you think of Prof. Andrea s
balloon expedition2'' asked the reporter.
Personally" replied Lieut.. Peary, ~
do not think balloon expedition can be
successful. The conditions oppose it,
Prof. Andrea is man of great scientific
knowledge and who no doubt has studied
his purpose carefully. He thinks he can
succeed. I would not say word deroga-
tory to any other explorer or his methods.
But my own personal conviction is that a
balloon is not proper nor possible means
of reaching the Pole.
Those who will accompany Lieut.. Peary
on the Hope are Albert Operti, the we'll
known Arctic scenery ar fist of New York
and Charles A. Moore of Brooklyn, son
OF Charles Moore, president of the Mon
tauk club, and member of the firm of
Manning, Maxwell & Moore. Young
Mr.. Moore is student. Also in the party