Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-12
MRS. R0BT. E. PEARY
Spending a Few Days With her
Husbands Family
Biore Sailing on Windward to Bring
Arctic Explorer Home.
Perfectly Confident of Finding Him
Alive and Well.

Portland. Me, July 1l.-Mrs. Robert
Il Psary. wife Of the Arctic explorer, Is
Il the nome Of her husbands family at
pleagantdale. She Will remain at
pleasantdale four days before contnu-
Inc her journey to Sidney, c. B., where
she will join The steamship Windward
and proceed north to meet Lieut..
Peary's PARTY From Mrs. Peary it was
harmed tnat the departure Of tho
WlniWarl from New York would be-
delayed several Days. because % an ac-
eide1l to- some part OF the machinery.
~ shall sail straight 90 Etah. That
IS on the coast OF Iceland, on the south
ern shore OF smith sound. The trip
saould ordinarily take three weeks
But after that viii come the most I'M
certain part uf the undertaking. We
suppos- tnat N.Y. Peary is at cape Sa-
bine on tine opposite coast of the sound.
The sound Is p miles across, and II the
ice ig uuj we San make the grip in q
Gay i'gt we may ID a. week, and once
when { CROSSED VIC were 10 days, be-
cause the iu- cloaed ia about us and we
could 80 neither forward nor back. II
We fearh ihc sound. cross, have no de-
hyin mrotin@ MIR. Pcary ana his party
Id cane Sabine. ana can return before
the sound fills with ice, this fifth and
last relief expedition VIII have been
success.
"P..tuacn us and such an outcome.
however. a. great many obstacles nat
ufaHy ar. intcrposed. IN the first
place. rc lmcw nothing Of Mr.. Peary's
tI Eherga! uutG, Hs Ne have known
notala. " Mr. Pearys real where
ah0ute. NJ wa h"rr known nothing Of
tie otii.. =. lier expeditions. The under
staad.u4 ~as ;hat the relief party was
TO Gu1 hil 3t Cape Sabine. But If ne
is not ihrre. aDd ID the natives know
notlug o. him. there VIII be nothing
10 do hli to aait until he comes.
"Miaht Chat mean another winter in
the North? ! don't know Naturally,
we shall not come back without him il
we cau DO nothing else. / should not
care to repeat the winter I did stay
there waiting I knew that time" said
Mrs. Pcary. laughing. "what It was to
be- despcrately poor. ] had not even
cotton To mend Marie's dresses when
thcv were torn. ] had finally 70 put
Acr IN furs, and If ii had not been for
somc wooiens Mr.. Pcary had brought
up To- The EsquimauX which they
woal not wear, | don't know what
would have happened TO us. Iowcy or,
the uncertainty was worse than TIL
dark and the intense cold and The pOF-
erty all put together.
We nave every hope, rs we had
when sc started that time for That
natter that my husband VIII pc wait
in2 fo1" us at Cane Sabine. But 1 con-
fess that all the circumstances Of this
expedition are not so promising as /
would ike. / am worried about the
health ofmy husband and his party for
one thing. No polar expedition has
probably ever been without physi-
can tefore. and the return ~ Dr. Died
itch. whose mind became unsettled and
VINO loft ire party Ia spite of their pro
tests. of course has Increased the dis
advantages under which they have
worked.
IN all other WAYS there are pleas
anter circumstances surrounding my
Journey this year than ever before. Fo~
it viii be the last Lieut. Feary viii
positively come back this fan for good.
whatever HIS heen the outcome of this
year ana evcn III ~ accomplished moth
ms now since 7 last saw him, his whole
contribution 20 the cause of Arctic ok
ploration has. I think he feels. been
something of value.
! since 1880 ho has practically lived at