Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-12-20
Little Marie Peary.


birth, far away amid the cleaning
ice fields of the North and surrounded
once more by her kindly friends, the
Eskimos. For little Marie was born
farther north than any white child in
the world, during one of her fathers
expeditions to Northern Greenland.
She was born on September IL. 1898,
at Anniversary Lodge, then Lieuten-
ant Peary's headquarters in Northern
Greenland.
Anniversary Lodge was built by
Lieutenant Peary and the members
of his expedition in the summer Of
1898. 1t was situated upon Bowdoin
bay and was built of wood which was
carried up in the stea mer Falcon.
1t was on July 20 last that Marie
and her mother sailed from st. Johns,
Newfoundland, on the stanch ship, the
Windward, to join Lieutenant Peary
in the frozen north. The Windward
was the ship that carried the Jackson
Harmsworth expedition to the Arctic
regions in 1896, and was presented to
Lieutenant Peary by Mr.. Alfred
Harmsworth. 1t is strong and well
built steamer, and is especially adapt
ed for the rough, hard service to be
met with in the Arctic regions. The
ships destination was Etah, an inlet
in Smiths sound, well up the coast of
Greenland. Here Lieutenant Peary
has established his headquarters, and
here it was expected that he would be
found by his wife and little daughter.
During the spring and early sum-
mer the great explorer was to have
made dash with dogs and sleds up
into the uttermost confines of the north
in an attempt to discover the pole.
By the time that the Windward would
reach Etah, some time in August, it
was expected that Lieutenant PearY
would have returned from his adven-
turous trip. Here, then, joyful SUI
prise would be in store for him, for he
did not know that his wife and little
daughter would join him again in
Greenland, and did not expect to see
them again until his return to the
United States.
This is Marie Ahnighito's second
visit to Greenland since she left that
country in her infancy. In the sum-
mer OF 1897 she made trip to the
Arctic region with her father and
mother. The main object of this expe-
dition was to secure large meteorite
which the Eskimos had discovered
to Lieutenant Peary on one Of his prior
expeditions. The meteorite, weighing
about 80 tons, was secured and
brought to New York, where it is
now on exhibition at the United |
States Navy Yard at Brooklyn. One
of the members Of this expedition Of
l897,an Eskimo named Keshu was the
first to reach the ship, and his oily |
face fairly shone with delight as he
greeted Lieutenant Peary. For the
explorer had always treated the Es-
kimos with much kindness, and he is
held in the greatest esteem by them.
When Keshu reached the ship he
shouted and danced to express his joy,
and his delight was unbounded when
the nurse held up little Marie in her
arms. He recognized the child at
once, notwithstanding the change
that few years had made in her ap-
pearance, and he danced about her
so vigorously in his excess of delight
and kept up such succession of
shouts that Marie at first was some
what alarmed. But perhaps mem
cries, long forgotten, came back to
her and soothed her fears.
Keshu was quickly followed by all
the inhabitants of Cape York who
were able to jump along the ice, and
they gathered in ring around little
Marie, their faces shining with pleas
ure, and all calculating in chorus
INA, ma, mana, mana u which is an Es-
kimo greeting Of welcome and express
sive of great delight.
"No one" gravely announced Soc
rates, "can arrest the flight of time"
"No?" queryingly interrupted a
bystander. Il thought anybody could |
stop minute" And even the disci-
pies of the great philosopher were
forced to smile behind their togas.