The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-09-16
WORD RECEIVED FROM PEARY
NEWS OF THE EXPEDITION.
Party IL Now at Baldwin Again Soon
Make the Trip-They We're Months
in the FieId-Reminents of the Greeley
Party Were Found Unmolested.

Brigus, y. f., Sept. l3.-The Peary-
IIamsworth steamer Windward, Captain
John Bartlett, from Etah, North Green
land, August 20, has arrived here, report
ing all well on board He will be followed
in week by the Peary Attic Clubs
Steamer Diana, Captain Samuel w. Bart
lett, also from Etan. The Windward re-
ports all on board the Diana were we'll
at the time the vessels separated.
The two steamers met at Etah, August
II, and worked in company under the
personal direction of Lieutenant Peary, in
collecting supplies for the winter and the
equipment for next springs campaign.
The Windward was ice bound in Altman
bay, on the west side of Kane Basin, about
80 miles north of Cape Sabine, from Aug
ust Is, 1898, to August ?, 1899, being in Il
sort of eddy undisturbed by wind or cur
rent. The season was one of continuous
calm with very little snow, the minimum
temperature at the ship being 10 degrees
below zero.
Lieutenant Peary and the sledge parties
were in the field almost continuously from
October, 1898, to August OF this year, and
have effected an extraordinary amount Of
important work, not only bearing on the
future of his own expedition, but adding
much to the geographical knowledge of
the coast line and the interior of Ellsmere-
land, the southern portion of Grinnelland.
His sledging journey aggrcg lted more than
10000 miles, not including several trips
repeated over portions OF the track.
As soon as the young ice could bear a
sedge Peary made careful reconnoiter OF
the coast line south of Altman bay and
carefully defined the lands and water be-
tween that point and Cape Sabine. This
work completed, Lieutenant Peary next
made several successful hunting trips and
laid in an ample supply of fresh meat, i'll.
Guiding musk oxen, seals and birds ioI
the winter. Utilizing the December moon
he sledged along the ice for25O miles north
over almost impossible ice to Fort Conger
the headquarters of the Greedy expedl-
ton.
Lieutenant Pealy found Fort CongeI
exactly as Greedy left it. The table wa;
standing from the last meal and all the
other appointments had remained undis
turbed for IL years. The buildings wer'
in fair condition. He took possession O.
the property, real and personal, in the
name OF the United States government
and posted notices to that effect. liz
brought away and is sending home tn
original Greedy records, the sextant o
Lieutenant Beaumont, r. N, of the Hares
Markham expedition OF 1868, recovered
by Lieutenant Lockwood, and many pri
waite letters and papers of members OF tn
Greedy party, all of which are to be for
warded to the Peary Arctic Club OF New
York. A considerable quantity OF pro
visions were also found and protected 10
further emergency.
He also pushed reconnaissance beyon'
Fort Conger to Cape Berry, finding prac
tically the same conditions OF sea as a
the point south. Then he made the secon
trip to Fort Conger. In all four partie
from the Windward had reached tina
point and returned without other acciden
than that to Lieutenant Peary whose toe
were frozen.