The Portland daily press., 1900-11-10
NEWS Oh PEARY.
Arctic Explorer Heard
From.
In Now Wintering at
Fort Conger.
His Party Suffered Great lardShipS
Last Season.
Most of Dogs Died for
Lack Of Food.
Arrival at Dundee of DR.. Leo
pOld Kann.
Most Of Dogs Died for
Lack Of Food.
Arrival at Dundee of DR.. Leo
pOld Kann.

Edinburgh, November 9.-It now ap-
pears that DIR. Leopold Kann is the only
member of his party Of the Arctic scientific
exploration who arrived at Dundee yes
terday on the whaler Eclipse from Davis
Strait. Dr. Robert Stein Of the United
States geological survey, decided at the
eleventh hour not to come to Scotland,
but to await the first opportunity of be-
ing landed on the American side. MIR.
samuel Warmbath of Boston, preferred
to remain at Cape Sabin for time.
In an interview today, DIR Kann gave
some interesting details regarding the
Peary and Sverdrup expeditions.
s"Lieut. Pearyis party he said, "passed
the winter at Etah on Smiths Sound,
near the spot where DR.. Hayes had his
winter quarters in 1861, and not far from
the scene Of the Greely disaster In
February and March of this year, Fort
Magnesia, our winter house at Bedford,
ON pym Island. was thrice visited by
members of his expedition. On the first
occasion DR., Hansen party came; on
the second, a Farty under DIR. Dederick,
and later Lieut.. Peary himself In COM
mand OF a sledging party.
HE reported tnat about ten months
previously he had met Sverdrup in ths
Kane Basin, north of smith Sound.
From conversations, / ELECTED that some
feeling had been engendered between
Lieut.. Peary and Sverdrup, the former
rather resentlng what he considered the
latter's intrusion into ground which, for
exploring purposes. the American was
inclined to regard as his own.
NrFfV n fhnrnnnh1U Y
plored the Ellsmere hinterland, mapping
out q region that was hitherto blank
ON the charts. Many OF SYerdrup's 1ags
were seen by us.
"In the course OF our hunting exIe
ditions in this great tract of country
quantities Of musk oxen were found
on what seemed to be old and established d
feeding grounds.
when the Peary and Sverdrup parties
separated, Sverdrups understood in
tsntion was to explore the vast area OF
land and water In ana around Jones s
Sound, beyond Cape Eden. 1 believe
Sverdrup, on the Fran, Is now winter
ing in Jones's Sound; and my opinion,
which is backed by that OF the Dun dee
whalers. is that 1t will be impossible for
the Fran to come home this winter.
The autumn has been very tempestuous
and the Ice was such as to render navi-
cation next to impossible.
they had returned from Fort Conger,
whittier they had gone to victual the sta
tion.
"Lieut. Peary had 200 dogs and 27
sledges; but, having underrated the
difficulties OF the journey and not having
a sutficiency OF food, most OF his dogs
died. lie only kept few natives at Fort
Conger during the summer season and
the rest OF the Esquimaux with Lieut..
Peary returned to the settlement In a few
days, so that the journey was extremely
arduous and the party suffered great
hardships.
"I am certain that Lieut.. Peary is now
wintering at Fort Conger. When left
Cape YORK, on the Eclipse, June 8, toe
Windward was expected to touch there
about the middle OF July, where orders
from Lieut.. Peary, which l had brought,
werealeft with the Esqnimaux.
"iJr. Stsin and myself discovered a
melancholy record or the Sverdrup expe-
dition near Fort Magnesia in the grave
OF DIR. Svendend with the inscription
"Died June 8, $780," which was nearly
two months before the arrival OF our
party
DR.. Kann will remain in Dundee for
ten days, going to London and later to
Vienna.