The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-17
FROM THE FAR NORTH
NEWS OF LIEUT.. PEARY RE-
 CEIvED AT LAST.
Steamship Erik Arrives at Cape Breton from Far North-Explor- CTS Wife Aboard-He Has
 Now Gone "Farthest North."

NeW Y0rk Tunes.
 After two years, news of Lieutenant Robert E. Peary. Arictic explorer. has been received. The Peary Arctic steam Cape Sabine, Ellesmere Land, on August boar&
 cd on March 31. 1900. on April IS of that year. Accompanied by Henson and five Eskimos. he crossed Robeson Channel to 1t along on foot and over sea ice. to the northward. At Blackhorn Cliffs, on April 26. two natives were sent back. and from Cape Britannia Ss degrees es1e .o a nOrsnS gtnS were sent back.
 In May Lockwood's farthest north cairn (s3 degrees 245 north) of May 13, 1SS2. May Mss Spenes It's records s were @ taken At Cape Washington, the headland seen by Lock- wood fifteen miles northeast in 1882, an- other cairn was erected. and a COPY Of the "farthest" record and additional memoranda were deposited. Peary, with Henson and the other Eskimo, Ahngma- lokto, pushed on. At 8 degrees 39 north they rounded the northern extremity of Greenland, finding the trend of the coast at this point to be eastward. Here, on the most northerly known land in the world. Poary built ,s,o sairn' in in records of his journey to that point, DOT tions of the flags of his country, of his club, and of his private signal, together with a few other articles interesting as souvenirs. Changing his course directly northward, he then struck out over the sea ice for the Pole, but was unable to advance farther than 8 degrees 50 north, when he was effectively stopped by the broken pack and much open water. ab- solutely impossible either for sledges or boats.
 Retraclng his steps to the shore, he pushed on along the Greeland coast. all the time eastward, about 16o miles be you'd Lockwood's "farthest," to latitude mately, but little more than degree from Independence Bay, discovered and named by him on July 1, 1892. The high mountain, then visible to the nortn, Was plainly recognized from his new pocition to the south. ~
 The reconnaissance ended with def-- njte demonstration of the western ana northern coast lines of Greenland, and, with one or two small breaks along the eastern coast, an exact and accurate chart of the entire archipelago. feary's forth in the letter to the secretary of the club. H. L. Bridgman, from which the
 ''Conger, April 4> 1901. My Dear Bridgman:
 ''it gives me great pleasure to present to the club the results of the worfk Of
 ''First-The rounding of the northern limit of the Greenland archipelago, the most northerly known land Tn the worid' probably the most northerly land.
 "Second--The highest latitude yet att tail ed in the Western Hemisphere (S3 de-
 "Third-The determination of the ori-. gin of the so-called 'poleocrystio ice,'
 "Considering that am. an old man, have one broken leg and only three toes, ard that my starting point was Etah, I feel that this was doing tolerably woll. ia a thousand wears since 'Erlk the Red first sighted the southern ex- tremity of the archipelago. and from that time Norwegians, Dutch. Danes, Swedes, Englishmen, Scotchmen and Americans have crept gradually northward up it's shores, until at last. through the in- strumentality and liberality of the club, it's northern cape has been lifted out or the arctic mists and obscurity. It seems fitting that this event, characterised ed by Sir Clements Markham as second In inn portance to the attainment of the pole It. self should fall in the closing year of the century. If I do not capture the pole itself in this spring campaign l shall try
 aEsls sra,itqis ait iieIasd ana respects to all the
 "Dr. Dedrieht takes this letter south. to be sent by natives to Cape York; thence by whaler to the British Consul at any civilized port"
 A pronounced change in the character of the coast was found beyond Cape Wash ington, the bold, precipitous headlands, and deeply cut floTds being succeeded by low, rolling foreland, suggesting pos sible glaciation at some earlier period, and all along the northern coast much oper water was met. Bear, musk oxen, hare and lemming were killed in the new ly discovered country, affording an ann pie supply of fresh meat for men and dogs. A stray wolf was shot at, but missed.
 Having practically connected his work of eight years before with that fl 1900, aLdr having completed the determination O: the northern boundary of Greenland. Peary, on May 9, turned back, following practically the line of his outward march. On June 10 he arrived at Fort Conger, having been three months in the field without accident, illness or serious mis- hap of any kind to himself or any of his party. Seven hundred miles more than Lockwood and Brainard had been made in less time and In temperatures ranging from 20 above to 35 below zero. Peary sends to the club a complete and detailed chart of his newly discovered coast and other work, reserving until the completion of his task the nomenclature and its publication. Having elimina ted the Greenland archipelago as a desirable route to the pole, and no further advance northward being possible until the open ing of the season of 1901, he decided that his next attempt would be from Cape Hecla, the northern point of Grinnell Land, and from Fort Conger as a base. Deciding thus to winter at Conger, the autumn was occupied in hunting and ob- taining the nt cessary fresh meat for men | and dogs. So diligently was this work nFOSt putRd that if was not ananIAd nn