The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-24
THE RACE FOR THE POLE.
PEARY AND sVERDRUP NOW ABOUT
Evenly MATCHED.

AAOTe money Neeueu.
BRIGus. n. f.. Sept 90 The details Of the
voyage Of the Peary steamer Windward. which
has Just got back here, OF much interest.
She left New York on July q 1893. and parted
company with tho Hope, Peary's other ship, at
Etah on Aug Is. II is at that point that the nara
tive Of her voyage begins
Steeming up Smith Sound from Etah she found
the ice unusually heavy and closely packed. and
IL was only with the greatest difficulty that she
effected an entrance into Kane Basin Pearys
hope was 10 be able to skirt the Greenland coast
but the trend OF the ice forced the ship toward
tho western side Of the channel and within a
weak she was sodly frozen in OIL Cape D'Urve.
at the entrance TO Altman bay. Just on the eigh-
teth parallel In this position she was about
100 miles north Of Peary's old quarters In Ingle-
field Gulf, and eighty miles north of Littlcton
Island. The approach Of the winter was rapid
and decisive; the season was one of the severest
on record. Kane Basin did not discharge its ice
laden surface for the whole year. with the best
glass not drop Of water was to be seen among
the foes and by Sept IL the young ice formed
nightly near the shore was sufficiently strong to
bear sledges and dogs When this condition was
reached II was clear that the ship was firmly en-.
closed for the winter, and preparations were made
TO combat It's terrors as we'll as possible.
The ships company numbered twelve men:
mate; Isaac Greenland. + Atswain; Moses Cross
man, engineer; VIM. Flynn, assistant engineer;
Henry Perry, cook: James Way. Thos Hickey,
fremen; james Snow. Con Shea, Sol Butler and
Edward Whelan seamen. Pcarys exploring
party comprised himself, DR.. Diederick, Matt
Henson (colored) and ten Eskimos, Ave men and
their wives Sixty dogs also carried for
sledge work in the far north, with a complete
outfit Of snowshoes, tents sledges, furs and other
1t was no small disappointment to Peary. who
hoped to lay his ship up in Sherard Osborne Ford
nearly two degrees farther north, to have her way
blocked at Cape DUrvillc. and to be obliged to
transport all his impedimcnta nearly 800 miles
over the ice and even then to seek out new base
from which to operate in Grinne Land; but he
was not the man to be daunted by such an obstacle.
While awaiting the approach of winter and the
freezing up of every watercourse in the region,
ae began series Of explorations Of Grinnell Land,
especially its western slopes before taversed
On Sept IS he travelled south along the coast,
making observations as he went until he reached
Buchanan Strait so-called, which he explored
and found to be really bay with two deep iords,
thus proving Hayes Sound TO be non existent
He was back in eight days, with two large bears
as trophies Of his skill with the rifle, and return
ing he set on foot preparations for his northerly
advance. His Eskimos landed his supplies and
boat. while the flesh of sixty warus, killed Just
before the ship started north, stored on the
rocks for the use Of the dogs during the coming
winter This done he started on another visit to
Buchanan Strait during which he met some Of
the Frams people and learned to his great salts
faction that she had not beaten the Windward in
the race for position, but frozen in Cooked
Hat Island, fifty miles south Of where the Wind
ward lay This trip yielded him splendid results
in the matter of game sixteen musk oxen and
one walrus being killed The flesh OF the oxen
proved delicious addition to the fare of the crew.
being accounted better than beef, and relished
accordingly.
That melancholy event in the life of every Arc
tic voyager. the departure of the for the long
winter night, took place on Oct 20. and many
were the gloomy thoughts Of those on the ship
as to whether they would be alive to SEQ Is rise
again. The darkness was now daily growing
greater and the temperature was daily falling low
err The inacton telling on the men and hunt
ing parties were organized, which rarely returned
from their trips without q welcome addition u
the larder In the shape OF a bear muskox or a
walrus. until It was seen that an abundance Of
fresh meat was assured for the winter. Capt
Bartlett, whose experience in the region
dates back 70 when no took Hayes north
for the first time. has theory that heavy
eating and no work Is destructive V
health, so he put all hands on two meals a day
breakfast at 10 and dinner at sand the sue
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solitary member Oh 'he crew suffered from DAY
illness ior inc "hoie petiod 'hey were nor'h
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