The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-24

| comparative COtnlOTl ny bInhll party
Pcary and his comrades carefully preserved
everything Of value in the building. All the origi
nal records Of the Greedy expedition. the private
| papers and personal belongings Of his men,
| tant OF Lieut. Beaumonts OF the Mares expedition,
and all the collections Of scientific value accumu-
lated by the Greedy people during their three years
| soiourn north were stored in cases and brought
| south to the windward for transmission to the
United States, The household and other imple
| ments unused for sixteen years, were turned 10
| account by the newcomers. OF these articles,
| well Of the tin cansters containing the Mares
! and Greedy records. IL Is worth noting that after
from sixteen to twenty years exposure to the Gle
ments in that region they were without stain Of
| rust or age bright and shining as when they left
| the makers hands
| When Peary recovered sufficiently he was con.
| veyed south 10 the steamer. dashed on sledge
| His toes were amputatcd soon after his arrival
| and in the latter part Of March Lieut. Baumann
| OF the Fran travelled up the coast to visit the
| Windward, whose people were very glad to see
! a strange face. During Peary's prolonged alb
/ sence her much alarmed at the lack Of
| any news from him. especially when. on Jan.
| 90 the two Eskimos who ran away from him
! arrived at the ship and could give no very good
| account OF him. On Feb % the sun again.
after having been four months below the horizon;
| and its appearance hailed with 10y by the
| crew. As edCn udy SENT " nearer inc Zenltn tne
spirits Of the crew. who had suffered from the monot
| ony and depression OF the winter backness, re-
covered and the men cheerfully attended to their
| daily tasks Hunting was resumed. and several
musk oxen and beaIs shot, and about the
| end Of March the Bskmos began TO make their
| way toward tho ship from their settlement Of
Kornah, near Etah. being none too well supplied
| with food at home and confident that they would
not 60 hungry the ship. until presently the
whole tribe almost was camped round her.
Easter Sunday was observed appropriately,
| as had been Christmas and New Years Tho
| fare for each occasion comprised musk OK pork,
evaporated potatoes tomatoes and green peas,
with plum pudding and tea. Scarcely a man
. aboard but produced cake OF swectmeat for one
occasion or the other, while birthdays wete SINH
larry marked On Easter Monday Pear& de-
spatched FIVE laden teams TO Congcr under charge
| OF Matt Henson, and by April II he was himself
able to walk about the deck. On April 10 he
started north, travelling on a sledge. to super
intend the operations he proposed to carry on
there. Two days later the seamen began clearing
a site and building house for him at D'Urville
material for which was the ship They put
his boat on more convenient slope so that In the
event Of his needing her in the future there would
be no difficulty about launc ching her. The Eskmos
were now all pressed into the work Of forwarding
supplies. which they did with such good grace
that within a fortnight they had transported
nearly three tons Of provisions to Rawlings Bay
At the end of May Peary and his men returned
from his second trip TO Conger. This time he
pushed on to Beechy Cape but the rough travel
ling was so severe his still unhealed feet that he
could not continue. The return trip he and the
doctor made in six days and he soon seemed to
be able to walk as well as ever. With the incom-
| ing Of June fur garments were discarded and all
hands returned to their three meals day.
Spring was now well advanced, pools and rivu-
lets of water were everywhere visible and the
sun shining for the whole twenty -four hours
changed the landscape, clearing the hills OF their
icy covering and revealing brown rocks and
scrubby lchens or healthy moss. BY June 20
three more parties had gone north with supplies
returning to report the channels open and pro-
gress impossible Peary then started TO explore
the region back from Princess Marie Bay and
was away three weeks doing splendid work and
apparently none the worse for his mishap On
, July "a the ice around the ship was open enough
, to admit OF the engines being SGT agoing again
after nearly years. inaction, but not until Aug.
: | did she actually get clear On Aug she ar
r | rived at Etah. found that the Diana had been
there and picked up the mail left receiving news
0 from the outer world after a years separation
, The next day the Fran came in. having been car
red south by the pressure Of the foe running south
She too got her mail and exchanged reports
i I'm Aug IL tho Ildnd drrlYeu anu INC Ufec SHIPS
b companies fraternzed. The 14th saw the Fran
venture north again; the next day Peary's shiT
o went walrus hunting. securing seventy five II
four days Peary changed to the Diana, which
= was the faster ship. and went south To Cape York
q TO arrange with the native tribes to provide hin
s with dogs, sledges and furs for the next spring
l. ! and TO assemble at Etah in February TO assis
k him in getting north the provisions landed iron
: the Diana and the walrus meat stored there Oh
Aug 81 the Windward took fifty tons OF coal from
: the Diana and sailed south, arriving here as re
o lated The Diana has since reached Sydney
Z Sch is the record of the Pcary expedition 70
last year An examination OF his future plan
B. will now prove interesting. He remains at Eta
, this fall and winter. TO recuperate and work Vi
l. the results of last seasons scientific operations
= and in February, when the return OF the sun pei
e mits his Eskimo allies will assemble, and wit
: picked dog teams the transportation OF turtle
s supplies to Conger will be undertaken. TIL
y Windward will be taken north in July, whe
Peary will Join her and seek once more TO make
% high latitude. He hopes to get open year an
l. to run her up Robeson Channel to the eighty
~ third parallel. whence he would make sledg
i Journey journeys toward the Pole. until h
reached it or proved the impossibility Of doing sc
- II he does not get as far north COnger he wi
y use that as base and the ship as depot and hi
70 point OF departure will be Cape Hecla, near tn
"a eighty third parallel. some sixty miles north
- Conger With the help Of the natives, and III
y companionship Of the trained and experience
C. workers he has with him, he should surely be abb
to make record within three years that will one
- more place our flag nearest TO the Pole
- The chief difficulty in the way of Peary's a
IA tanning his object will be lack Of funds Inles
~ the American people respond generously to II
~ call for funds to enable him to carry out his plan
~ the battle cannot be successfully fought. tt
- funds at the disposal Of the Peary Arctic Gu
10 which manages his campaign, amount TO oul
~ S64, 900, and that sum must be about exhaust'
:, by tho expenditures to date. The first use
which any additional funds must be put is thu
.d of thoroughly refittng the Windward. To
In this az 1t ought to be done will cost $4,000 81
ON must have new boilers and engines TO enable h
he to make good speed and they must be OF the mo
no modern type to economic coal, and thereto
ar they will be costly. She will also have to be
| Rtted internally with a view her TemainlI