The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-11-10
NEWS OF U. PEARY'S PARTY
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 some feeling had been engenderd be- tween Lieutenant Peary and Sverdrup, the former rather resenting what he considered the latter's intrusion into grounds which, for exploring purposes, the American was inclined to regard as his own.
 "Sverdrups party had thoroughly ex- plored the Ellsmere Hinterland, map ping out a region that was hitherto blank on the charts. Many of of Sver- drup's flags were seen by us.
 In the course of our hunting expedi- tions in this great tract of country great number of musk-oxen were found ed feeding grounds.
 When the Peary and Sverdrup par ties~ separated Sverdrup's understood intention was to explore the vast area of land and water in and around Jones' sound, beyond Cape Eden. I believe Sverdrup, on the Tram, is now winter ing in Jones sound and my opinion, which is backed by that of the Dundee whalers, is that it will be impossible for the Tram to come home this year. The autumn has been very tempestuous, and the ice was such as to render naviga- tion next to impossible.
 "The natives at Petravic reported that they had returned from Fort Con- ger, wither they had gone to vlctual the station
 Lieutenant Peary had 200 dogs and twenty-seven sledges, but having un- derrated the difficulties of the journey and not having a sufficiency of food, most of the dogs died. He only kept a few natives at Fort Conger during the summer season, and the rest of the Es- quimaux with Lieutenant Peary return cd to the settlement in a few days, so that the Journey was extremely arduous and the party suffered great hardships. T am certain that Lieutenant Peary is now wintering al Fort Conger When l left Cape York on the Eclipse June 9 \ the Windward was expected to touch there about the middle of July. where orders from Lieutenant Peary, which had brought, were left with the Esoui- maux.
 "Dr. Stein and myself discovered melancholy record of the Sverdrup ex- petition near Fort Magnesia in the grave of pr. Svensden with the inscrip- tlon: Died June 9, 1S99, which was nearly two months before the arrival of our party"
 l Dr. Kann will remain in Dundee for several days, going then to London and later to Vienna.
 | Boston, Nov, 9.-Evelyan B. Baldwin. the head of the Baldwin-Zeigler Polar expedition, which is to start in 1901 who was in this city to-day on his way | to Nova Scotia, was shown the dis patch from Edinburgh relating to the return of the Scotch whaler Eclipse to | Dundee yesterday with members of the l Stein expedition to Ellsmere Land.
 In commenting upon the report the authenticity of which he does not doubt. MT. Baldwin said that if it were true l that Lieutenant Peary did not get un- | der way from the headquarters at Etah l until last August, it would seem to l show that again he had been hampered | in his efforts to reach Fort Conger in time, to make a dash for the pole early 1 last spring. It will be recalled, MT. Baldwin said, that MT. Peary. when ] heard from in the fall of 1899 had stated L I 1S9S-99 at Etah and to make an early start in the spring of 1899 to Fort Con- l ger, from which point he expected to make an effort to reach the pole and returning in the course of the spring and summer of the present year. That 1 he has been unable to accomplish this | is apparent. If no mistake has been made with regard to his passing Pym Island last August and in the event of his having reached Fort Conger this 1 fall it is likely that he would not en- l deavor to reach the pole this year, but would remain during the coming win | ter at Fort Conger and make the ef- fort in the spring and summer of 1901,
 If this supposition is correct the con- 1 tinued absence of the Windward is ex- plained, as in the case of MT. Peary's l failure to accomplish his work during 1 the past year, the Windward was to ] remain north during the coming win 1 ter. Another thing in connection with 1 the situation is the fact that if the ice were sufficiently strong and compact enough to permit of sledge travel in Kane Basin and Kennedy Channel last August, it would indicate that the 1 Windward or any other ship would not
 be able to get very far north this i year.
 1 We are left to surmse what has be- come of the Tram. It seems singular that no news has come from Captain Sverdrup, her navigator, unless they were so far north that they could not communicate with the Stein party. I consider, however, that there is no cause to be over anxious concerning the safety of either Lieutenant Peary, Cap '. tain Sverdrup or tho WindWard.