Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-10
PEARY'S POLE HUNT.
Continued Absence of the Windward
 Explainei

EADld1ncu. .. EDINBURGH, Nov. 1o-It now ap- pears that Dr. Leopold Kann is the only member of his party of arctic scientific exploration who arrived at Dundee on the whaler Eclipse from Davis strait. Dr. Robert Stein of tae United States geological survey decided at the eleventh hour net to cosle to Scotland, but to await tEe first opportunity of being laad- cd on the American side. Ar. Samuel Tarfnhath of Bsxten preferred to remain at Cape sahine fer time.
 In sn interview Dr. KsHn gave some Interesting details regarding the Peary and Gverdrup expeditions.
 "LieuteRant Peary's party" ks said, passed the viKter at Etah, ea Smiths sound, Rear the spet vksre Dr. Hayes had his winter quarters iE 1Sas s2a set far frsm tke scene sf the Grssly &issstsr. In February and March ef tkis year Fort M&gzesis, ear wiater house at Bedford, oR Fya island, was thrice visited by the nessers of his expedition. On the first occasion Er. HGEssRs party caze, ca the sscesA R&rty wRGer Dr. Ds&erick and later Lieutenant reary hir1self in com uan& of slsGEinS party. r He reported that about ten months previously ke had met Sverarup in the Kane basia, nertA of Smiths sound.
 
 feeling kas been eREsndered between Liautsnsat Fsary and SvGrdrGp, the for mer rather rssentiRg what he considered the lattsr's iatrsSiea iAte ground which, for exploring purposes, ths American was laclined ts regard as his own.
 "STsrsrpP's party had thoroughly eX- plereA the Ellesmere binterland, mapping z sut resioR tkst was hitherto blank en tke cksrtB. Many of Sverdrup's flags were ssen bJ Hs.
 ''ln the ceHrEe of our hunting eIpedi- tisns is tkis great tract of country quau- titles of Eausk oxen were found on what seemed to be old and established feedin 2 grounds.
 "WRsR tks Peary and Syerdrup parties separated Everdrup's understood iptGR- tisn was to explore the vast area of land and water in and around Jones' sound be- yoad Cape EGen I believe Sverdrup, eR the Tram, is now wintcring in Jones' sound, and ray opinion, which is backed by that Of the Duudee whalers, is that it will be Impossible for the Tram to come horne this year. The autumn has been very tempeEtuous, and the ice was such as to render navigation next to impoSsi- ble.
 "The natives at Petravic reported that they had returned from Fort Conger, whither they had gone to yictual the sta ton.
 Lieutenant Peary had 2G0 dogs and 2T sledges; but, having underrated the difficulties of the journey and not having suticiency of food, most of his dogs died. He only kept a few natives at Fort Conger during the summer season and the rest of the Eskimos, with Lieu tenant Peary, returned to the settlement iR few days, so that the journey was l extremely 2rGuous, and the party sui fersd great hardEhipE.
 II sm certain that Lieutenant Peary i: psw wiateripg at Fort Conger. Whel | I left Cape York on the Eclipse June 9 tRe WipAwRrd was expected to toucl tAere about the middle sf July, where or Gers froA Lieutenant Pcary which 1 haC brought were left wl:h the Eskimos.
 'Dr. Stein and myself discovered ; melancholy record of the Syerdrup e1pe ditisn near Fort Magnesia in the gray' ef Dr. Syensden with the inscription Died June 9, 1S99,' which was nearl. tive months before the arrival of ou party"
 Dr. kann will remain in Dundee fo several days, going then to London an later to Vienna.