New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-17
MRS. PEARY AND HER TRIP.
WILL BRING HER HUSBAND BACK-LAST
OF HIS ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

Bangor, Me-. July &c (SpeciaD.-Mrs. Robert E.
Peary. wife CT the arctic explorer has been
PleasantdaIe in this State. for days. at the
home Of her husbands people. resting before re-
Stunning her journey to Sidney, c. B., where she
will join the steamer Windward. bound north 10
meet Lieutenant Peary's party. From Sidney"
says Mrs Peary. I'VE shall sail straight north to
Etah, on the coast of Iceland, the southern shore
of Smith Sound This trip will probably require
about three weeks. and after that will come the
most uncertain part Of the expedition.
I'VE suppose that Mr.. Peary and his party at
Cape Sabine. the opposite shore Of the Sound.
The Sound is about twenty-seven miles across, and
should it be free from ice ought to cross in
few hours. although the passage may require
week. Once ten days in getting across,
the ice closing in around us that we could make
no progress ir any direction. If we reach the
Sound cross safely, have delay in meeting with
Mr.. Peary and his party at Cape Sabine. and
return before the Sound fills with ice, this fifth
and last relief expedition viii have been success
full
"a great many obstacles, however, may be met
with. In the first place. we have certain knowl-
edge of where Mr.. Peary is. The understanding
was that the relief party to meet him at Cape
Sabine but should he not be there, and the
tives have information of him. then there will
be nothing to do but to wait until he comes.
Might not that mean another winter IN the ice?
I don't know. Naturally, shall not return with
out him. should rot care to put in another win
ter like that 1 spent in waiting for him. I
knew at that time what it means to be desperately
poor. had not even cotton thread to mend Maries
dresses when they became torn I had finally to
put her in furs, and had Il not been for
woolens that Mr.. Peary brought for the Esqui-
maus who would not them, don't know
what would have happened to However. the
uncertainty was far worse than the darkness, the
bitter cold and the poverty all put together.
we have every hope, we had when we start
ed that time that my husband will be waiting for
at Cape Sabine but confess that all of the
circumstances attending this expedition are not so
promising as l would like. For one thing I am
worried about the health Of my husband and the
members Of his party No other Polar expedition
1 think. has been without its physician, and the
return of Dr.. Diedrich, whose mind became IN
settled, and who left the party in spite of their
protests has, of course, increased the disadvan-
tages under which they have worked.
I'm other ways this journey to the North IS the
pleasantest / have ever made. because II is the
last. Lieutenant Peary will positively come back
of the expedition Even if he has accomplished
nothing since last 1 him. his work in the
cause of Arctic exploration has, he feels been of
some value. For the last twelve years he has
lived practically all OF the time above latitude 49,
and his return this fall will signalize the closing of
his arctic campaigns. That is what I am thinking
of in planning this expedition--it will be the last
and that makes it pleasure"
Mrs: Peary discusses her trip to the frozen North
lightly other women would a voyage across
the Atlantic in one of the luxurious passenger
liners.