Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-09-19
LIEUTENANT PEARY.

no"ln they began arriving. On March !
my advance party of six sledges, in
cnarse OF Hensen. left for Coneer.
March started with the main party Of
| eighteen sledses, leaving Percy in charge
at Payer harbor.
Conger was reached in twelve marches
arriving within an hour or two of the
advance party. My supporting party Of
s-skllnos returning from Conger brought
ooWn the instruments, chronometers and
arctic library. Eight marches more
TOOK US to Cape Hecla. The north end
OF ROBINSON channel was all open across
70 the Greenland coast, lakes of water
extending northward as far as could be
seen from Black cape and Cape Ram
some.
North~"rd Over the Polar Sea.
Aprll 1. started northward over tho
poIar sea with Hensen. four Eskimos and
SIX sieu8es. Old foes covered deep with
snow and intersected with rubble ridges
ana lanes OF young ice We're encountered
from the moment We left the ice foot.
After six marches open leads, foes in
motion We're encountered Two natives
we're sent back. AS We advanced the
noes become smaller the pressure ridges
on grander scale and the open leads
more frequent. Each days march was
more perllous and our general course de-
Elected west by the character of the ice.
Finally at s4l7 north latitude, northwest
Oh Heca, the polar pack become impracti- |
able and further efforts to advance were |
given up.
New leads and pressure ridges with |
[osgy weather made our return in soma
prospects more trying than the advance
iecla was regained April 80 and Conger
Way g. Leaving Conger May Cape
SABINE was reached on the 18th A few
rays later went north as far as Cape
-ouls Napoleon to complete the survey
If Bobbit bay. returning the LIST of Juna
proposed trip across Ellesmere Land
Westward was prevented by open water
n Buchanan bay. The ice broke I'D ear
Ter than in 1901, and Payer harbor was
'lockdded almost continuously.
, me " ihu"ard bored her way through |
he ice and entered the harbor the morn
ng of Aug. and got out again the ;
anne afternoon with scarcely fifteen min
les to spare before the harbor was
loSed by the ice. Forcing our way across |
NTH sound my Eskimos, with their be-
'hSlhgs. We're landed in Ughtield gulf. ,
everai gays We're devoted to hunting {
alrus; then the Windward started south
,aching and leaving Cape York the aft Il
moon OF Aug. % r
Summer Voyage without Mi,han. IN
Calling at Godhoun, Greenland and Cane
aven, Baf1in Land, the Windward ar
we'd at Chateau bay, Labrador, Sept. "A |
ID sent dispatches. The summer voy-
g has been without mishap, and the v
inward. with her engines, has made. | Il
soou time as the larger and more =.
'werful ships that have been going
'rth the past ten years. The year at y
iyer harbor was passed comfortably u
ouSh an ANXIOUS strain CAUSED bv the | ~
wages OF disease among my faithful
opie was not light. Food was album. d
ut ana our supply of musk OK and | j
err meat continued throughout the wear
lH SlptlpA ir, H.,
is arduouS, but not marked by special |
posture, suffering or danger more than
necessarily Incidental to serious archie Q,
'rk .,
equipment and personnel were satisfac- -,
~ ana further advance was vetoed by W.
'uperable natural conditions. The ii
ndward has on board the Instruments u
rononletsrs ami arctic library aban- pa
ned by the Greedy expedition and M
rouS specimens OF natural history cA
ar, musk OK, reindeer and walrus skins
he skeleton OF Two horned narwhai
ave afcuc specimen; also living speci-
MS of musk ok, walrus arctic hare ~,
kimo dog and the anchor and chain III
by Erik last summer are also an fir,
lrd. AZ,
h Fran left Coolhoun about Aup 81 '
lnd home She has been in Sonrr aux
ma. from whence it is understood ex- Sp
rations Were made to the northwest ha
e death, a fireman is reported since
lers on board said to be well. The
lie schooner Forget Me Not which was
'gnt IN the ice at Cape Haven last
II, is now on her way to St. John. f,
his report, signed by Peary, is ad- ter
'ssed to Secretary H. L. Brigham COZ
the Peary Arctic club. Peary will lit,
to New York at once, and the thu
ndward will probably go to New ott
midland for the winter.