Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-18
Peary Expedition Arrives at
Sydney, N. s.
DID NOT REACH POLE
MET WITH INSUPERABLE NATU-
RAJ CONDITIONS.
Windward Has on Board a Number
of Rare and Valuable
Specimens.

SYDNEY. N. s., September 1S.-The
Peary Arctic Club relief steamer Wind
ward, with Lieut.. C. f. Peary on board, ar
rived here today from Cape Sabine. All on
board are well. Lieut.. Peary said:
"Our expedition did not reach the north
pole, but we made most important scien-
tifc discoveries. We are all well and glad to
get back to civilization"
He recovered and brought back the IN
struments and library abandoned by the
Greedy expedition. He also brought nu-
merous and rare specimens of natural his
tory. Lieut.. Peary sent to the Arctic Club
the following report of the operations of
the expedition since August ., 1901:
Report in Detail.
The Peary Arctic Club steamer Wind
ward, Captain Samuel W. Bartlett, arrived
here this morning from Cape Sabine. All
on board are well.
Peary sent to the club the following re-
port of the operations of the expedition
since August 9. 1901:
Left Erik harbor on the Ellesmere coast
August 20. The party reached Payer har-
Dor September 16, crossing Roose Bay
partly by sledge and partly by boat then
walking across Beford Pin. About week
later my Eskimos began to fall sick not
one escaping BY November 10, six adults
and one child were dead, nearly all the
others very weak. but out CT danger.
Early in January Esllimos came across
from Anvilak. bringing news of the raw
ages of a fatal epidemic through the tribe.
Word was sent back by these scouts for as
many of the survivors as could come to
me and by the end OF the month they be-
Iya1,- Low IaY,sN
Of dog food was established near Cape Louis
Napoleon. some sixty miles north of Sa-
bine. On March my advance party of six
sledges in charge of Hensen left for Gangor
March started with the main party of
eighteen sedges. leaving Percy In charge
at Payer Harbor. Gangor was reached in
twelve marches arriving within an hour
or two of the advance party. My support
ing party of ESkimoS returning from Can
gor brought down the instruments. chro-
nometers and arctic library. Eight marches
more took us to Cape Hecla
Robinson Channel Open.
The north end of Robinson channel was
all open across to the Greenland coast.
Lakes of water extended northward far
al could be seen from Black Cape and Cape
Ramsome. From Hecla another supporting
party returned.
april 1 started northward over the Polar
sea with Henson. four Eskmos and six
sledges. Old foes covered deep with snow
and intersected with rubble ridges and
lanes of young ice We're encountered from
the moment we left the ice foot
THE same kind of travelling. except the
lanes of young ice, found by the English
expedition of 1876.
After six marches open leads foes In
motion. encountered Two natives
were sent back. AS we advanced the foes
became smaller, the pressure ridges on a
grander scale and the open leads more fire.
a.hH avs reb rr7Ar aril-
Gus and our general course detected west
by the character of the ice. Finally at
S4fI north latitude, northwest Of Hecla,
the polar pack became impra cticable and
further efforts to advance We're given up.
New leads and pressure ridges with foggy
weather made our return IN some prospects
more trying than the advance. Hecia was
regained April - and Gangor May .. Leav-
ing Gangor May g. Cape Sabine was reached
May Il. A few days later We went north
as far as Cape Louis Napoleon to complete
the survey Of Bobbt bay, returning the LIST
of June. A proposed trip across Ellesmere
Land westward was prevented by open
water in Buchanan bay.
Ice Broke Early.
The ice broke up earlier that in 1901
and Payer Harbor was blockaded almost
continuously.
The Windward bore her way through
the ice and entered the harbor the morning
afternoon with scarcely fifteen minutes to
spare before the harbor was closed by the
ice. Forcing oar way across Smith Sound
my Eskimos with there belongings were
landed in Ughfeld Gulf. Several days were
devoted to hunting walrus, then the Wind
ward started SOUTH reaching and leaving
Cape York the afternoon Of August 2S.
Calling at GoodhSun. Greenland and
Cape Haven BafIin Land, the Windward
arrived at Chateau Bay, Labrador, septem-
Der ii and sent dispatches. The summer
voyage has been without mishap and the
Nindward. with her engines. has made as
good time as the larger and more powerful
ships that have been going north the last
ten years.
The year at Payer Harbor was passed
comfortably, though an anxious strain
caused by the ravages of disease among my
faithful people was not light. Food was
abundant and our supply of musk-ox and
deer meat contributed throughout the year
The northern sledge trip in the spring was
arduouS but not marked by special ex-
posture, suffering or danger more than is
necessarily incidental to serious arctic
work.