New-York tribune., 1900-11-10
ARCTIC EXPLORERS STORY,
DR.! KANN TELLS OF THE PEARY AND
svERDRUP PARTIES.
STEIN AND WARMBATH. THE AMERICANS
DID NOT RETURN FROM THE NORTH

STEIN AND wARMBATH. THE AMERICANS.
DID NOT RETURN FROM THE NORTH.
Edinburgh. Nov. e.-It now appears that DR..
Aeopolo hann Is the only member of his party
VI Arctlc scientific exploration who arrived at
Oundee yesterday the whaler Eclipse. from
laws Strait. DR.. Robert Stein. of the United
oIates Geological Survey, decided at the eleventh
hour not to come to Scotland, but to await the
hrst opportunity of being landed on the Ameri-
can SIDE Samuel Warmbath. of Boston. pre-
terred to remain at Cape Sabine for a time
In an interview to-day DR.. Kann gave some
interesting details regarding the Peary and
Sverdrup expeditions
Lieutenant Peary's party" he said ..nassed
the winter at Etah. Smiths Sound near
tile spot where DR.. Hayes had his winter quar-
teFs IN 1860. and not far from the scene of the
"reeY disaster In February and March of this
year Fort Magnesia, our winter house at Bed
4oru' on Pym Island, was thrice visited by the
members OF this expedition. On the first occa
sioh DR. Hansen's party came, on the second a
party under Dr. Dederck and later Lieutenant
reary himself in command of a sledgine marty
ne reported that about ten months previously
he mad met Sverdrup in the Kane Basin north
oI smiths Sound. From conversations T aIicitad
tnat some feeling had been engendered between
lieutenant Peary and Sverdrup. the former
rather resentng what he considered the latter,s
intrusion into ground which, for exploring mr.
poses the American was inclined to regard as
his own. ~
Sverdrups party had thoroughly explored tho
n IlieSilere hinterland mapping out region that
was hitherto blank on the charts Man,, o4
SVerdrup's flags were seen by us
LII the course OF our hunting expeditions In
thls great tract of country quantities of musk
oxen were found on what seemed to be old and
established feeding grounds.
When the Peary and Sverdrup parties sepa-
rated. Sverdrup's understood intention was to
explore the vast of land and water in and
around Jones Sound, beyond Cape Eden I be-
heve Sverdrup. on the Fran, is now winterine
IN Jones Sound. and my opinion. which is backed
by that of the Dundee whalers, is that it will be
impossible for the Fran to come home this year
The autumn has been very tempestuous and
the Ice was such as to render navigation next
TO impossible
had returned from Fort Conger whittier they
had gone to Victual the station
Lieutenant Peary had two hundred dogs and
twenty seven sledges, but having underrated the
diiilculties of the journey and not having suf-
hciency OF food. most of his dogs died He onlv
Kept few natives at Fort Conger during the
summer season. and the rest of the Eskimos
with Lieutenant Peary. returned to the settle
ment in few days that the Journey was
extremely arduous and the party suffered great
hardships.
Il certain that Lieutenant Peary is now
wintering at Fort COnger. When l left Cape
York on the Eclipse. June 9. the Windward was
July where orders from Lieutenant Peary
which had brought. left with the Esquimos
DIR. Stein and myself discovered a melan-
chOly record OF the Sverdrup expedition near
Fort Magnolia. in the grave OF DR.. Svensden
with the inscription. Died June o. 1899 which
was nearly two months before the arrival Of our
party"
Dr. Kann will remain in Dundee for several
days. going then to London, and later to Vienna