The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-09-16
WORD RECEIVED FROM PEARY
NEWS OF THE EXPEDITION.
Party Is Now at Etah-Wil Again Soon
Make the Trip-They Were Months
In the Field-Reminentso of the Greeley
Party We're Found Unmolested.

Brigus, n. f., Sept. l3.-The Peary-
Harmsworth steamer Windward, Captain
John Bartlett, from Etah, North Green
land, August rs, has arrived here, report
ing all we'll on board. He will be followed
in week by the Peary Artc Clubs
Steamer Diana, Captain Samuel w. Bart
lett, also from Etan. The Windward re-
ports all on board the Diana were well
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 2, 1899, being in a
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 ~ 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 Grinnclland.
His sledging journey aggregated more than
10000 miles, not including several trips
repeated over portions of the track.
AS soon as the young ice could bear a
sledge Peary made a 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, in
Guiding musk oxen, seals and birds for
the winter. Utilizing the December moon,
he sledged along the ice for250 miles north,
over almost impossible ice to Fort Conger,
the headquarters of the Greedy eXpedi-
ton.
Lieutenant Peary found Fort Conger
exactly as Greedy left it. The table was
standing from the last meal and all the
other appointments had remained undis-
turbed for IL years. The buildings were
in fair condition. He took possession Of
the property, real and personal. in the
name OF the United States government
and posted notices to that effect. He
brought away and is sending home the
original Greedy records, the seXtant Of
Lieutenant Beaumont, r. n, OF the Hares-
Markham expedition of 1868, recovered
by Lieutenant Lockwood, and many pri-
vate letters and papers OF members of the
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 for
further emergency.
He also pushed a reconnaissance beyond
Fort Conger to Cape Berry, finding prae-
ticaly the same conditions of sea as at
the point south. Then he made the second
trip to Fort Conger. In all four parties
from the Windward had reached that
point and returned without other accident
than that to Lieutenant Peary whose toes
were frozen.