The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-06
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VIII Watch His Chances at
Greenland's Extremity.
IF NOT The FIRST YEAR
Then the Second, or Third
His Party and Plans.
IF NOT The FIRST YEAR

New York. July 4-Three Atlantic ex-
plorers will endeavor 70 reach the north
pole this summer. Two OF them are
Americans and one is a Norwegian Two
Of them have selected the Smith Sound
route; one Will take the ice foes above
Spitzbergan. Robert E. Pearey. c. e,
U. 5. N. will take the sledgs Journey
from the northernmost OF the islands
above Greenwich over the sea icA Mr.
Pearey VIII start as soon as poss4 Die. His
Arctic ship, the Windward, presented 20
him by Alfred Harms worth owner OF
several newspapers in England, came
here from ST. Johns. Newfoundland. re-
Gently. and Is now being loaded for the
voyage.
This time" said NJ. Peary TO a repor-
ter for the Evening Post. my main pur-
pose is to reach the pole. l shall start
as soon as possible. put in at ports al
Labrador 10 buy dogs, and at Esquimau
settlements in the Whale Sound region
10 take on board the EsIuimau who ars
10 be my auxliaries, for my party of
Americans Will consist of two other men
From Whale Sound I shall push my ship
as far north as possible through Smith
Sound and Kennedy and Robson Chan
nels- Somewhere upon the Greenland
coast-somewhere near Shsrard Osborn
fjord-I shall land with my supplies and
send the ship home. L have taken no
house. sha , pitch my tents upon the
shore and wait until the frat SHOWS of
the winter fail heavy enough TO furnish
material for an iglOoyah." With the aid
of the Esquimaux l shall build one OF
these houses. 1t will be surrounded, as
were my wooden houses during previous
expeditions. with a wall of boxes and
barrels containing my supplies. The IN
terVal between the wall and the main
house, rooted over, forms an air space
through which the exterior cold air finds
difficulty in penetrating. Moreover, this
air space is a sheltered passage bounded
by the inner ends of my storeboxes, 50
that l can break out my provisions with
out issuing into the open.
'In this hut l shall live throughout the
winter. When the sledging season be-
gins l shall make a journey north until
have reached the terminus Of that chain
of Islands which stretches toward the
pole from the limit of the main land If
the sea-ice before me looks favorable for
sledging, I shall strike directly across it
towards the pole. If it does not look
practicable I shall leave the discovery Of
the pole until the succeeding season. and
if possible, march southwark along the
unexplored section of The east coas. Cf
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shall complete the definition of the great
Island. If 1 deem it best not to try the
sea-ice in the first season. / shall try it
the second or third. l shall have three
years, after l am established in Green
land. TO spend in waiting for a season
when the foes are smooth and lie close
together In that time. surely, I shall
find an opportunity to advance towards
the pole.
Hitherto I have chosen the interior
plateau of greenland. ice-covered to q
dept, in some localities, of more than a
mile for my sledge journeys. This time
1 shall not ascend the cliffs to the INLAND
ice" but shall keep TO the sea level. For
the most part 1 shall make my journey
over the ice that remains attached to the
shore. 1 do not expect TO find this ice
harder travelling in the far north than 1t
is in the Whale Sound region: there will
be rough places and smooth places there
as wei as elsewhere.
MY party will be as small IS possible
Small parties accomplish as much as large
ones, with less risk Of starvation. Two
men can easily shoot fresh meat enough
10 support themselves. when a large party
would have difficulty in finding game.
Again, leader finds it easier 20 charge
two men with his personal enthusiasm
than 70 charge half-a-dozen with IL. Ny
VIII be DR.. T. :. DERRICK, iT
a man about thirty years old and grad
uate of 4 Philadelphia medical school. and
Mathew Henson, a c0lored man. who has
accompanied me on ali ny expeditions
I have selected those among the Smith
Sound Esquimaux whom ] snail pick up
on my way north. If can. shall send
the Windward hoome. BUt the movement
OF the foes in the ice-congested waters /
north Of Smith Sound are uncertain. and /
the ship may be caught. Then We VIII SEX /.
the best harbor possible and spend the I
winter in the north. and trust 10 siedges /
for the rest Of the journey"
The Windward is a steam wtaler OF 20 .
tons. she was formerly in the service Of +
the Hudson Bay com pany. from whom Mr 4
Harms worth bought her % cary Mr.. Jack +
son 10 Franz Joseph Land. she spent one +
winter IN the Arctic regions At Franz .
Joseph Land. frozen ii -Ae ice. She IS IN I
usually strong. even for an Arc1.c snip:
fortified without by an extra shea-hlag .
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the ice and within b. traverse beams - /
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