The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-31
ADVENTURES HAD
 IN PEARY LAND Expedition to Pole Twelve Years Ago UnIucky MUCH HtR0ISM DISPLAYED Peary Found Mysterious Stone Which Was Used By Natives for Giving Edge to knives-Romance
 In the Ice.
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petitions to the Arctic regions prior to
 his present attempt but none exceeded In
 interest that of twelve years ago. Yet
 that endeavor suffered more hard luck
 pehaps than any of the others.
 The lieutenant had but recently taken
 unto himself wife, and Mrs. Peary.
 with the loving ardor of young bride,
 insisted upon accompanying her husband and sharing all his hardships. There was
 much grumblng among Peary's asso-
 ciates, who feared that the presence of a woman to be cared for and petted would
 be handicap to the party, but Mrs.
 Peary proved she could endure quite as
 much Arctic discomfort as d man and
 she was probably as valuable an aid to
 the undertaking any male in the outfit.
 Further romance was added to the en- 1 terprise when on September F, 1893 Marie
 Anhto Peary,. the first baby born in l Northern Greenland, first saw the light. 1 The Eskimos took quite as much interest
 in the wee, white stranger as the Amer jeans themselves, excepting, of course,
 the fond parents.
 l The costume of the men of the party l consisted of the following garments: | Woolen underwear, fur trousers of bear | skin. dogskn or deerskin fur outside; | hooded deerskin shirt worn over trousers, 1 fur inside; hooded deersl<in coat, fur out
 side heavy woolen stockings, kammicks l (I1sSimo boots), dogsliin or deerskin moe- casions, fur inside, worn over kammicks;
 and woolen, deerskin or dogskin mittens. | So thorough a protection was this cos
 tune that although the Arctice winter was one of the hardest ever known it's | evil effects upon the men were not per manent There were some cases of frost | bite, of course, but Lieutenant Peary says | even these were due to the inexperence of the sufferers.
 III Luck Follows Party. | III luck pursued the party from the | start. Slowness in getting supplies de- | ayed the start until late in the season. | Then the winter was extraordinarily se- | we're, even for the Arctic regions the | equnoctial storms sending the mercury | down to 55 and 60 degrees below zero. | The sledge dogs froze in solid blocks; In- dian burrors or donlSeys taken as an ex- pertinent all perished. To cap all tidal wave swept away half of the barrels of kerosine with which the ship Falcon was stocked.
 Instances of heroism were not lacking. | During an overland sleigh Journey all the
 
 one. There were three men in that par | ticular trip over many miles of rough, | ridged ice, and of these two fell sick. The only man who held out was Dr. | Vincent. who harnessed himself up with | the dogs to draw the sled with it's bur
 den of disabled men.
 | Reaching q camping place the doctor | tried to make tea over an, alcohol lamp, one cup at a time. The first man served accidentally spilled his share of the pre- | cious fluid. Before the second cup was | brewed the bottom melted out of the con- densed milk can that served is teapot
 ana the spilllng of the contents put the
 lamp out of commission.
 | In spite of this m luck the scientific re-
 suits of the expedition were valuable, and | the greater part of the northern coast of
 Greenland was mapped. "Peary Land" | is the name now applied to the region l thus explored. The title originated with | the Geogra phical club of Philadelphia and has been accepted by geographers of Eu- rope.
 Strange Stone Found. Lieutenant Peary discovered mysteri- | ous iron stone long known to the natives, | but never before seen by a civilized man. Nobody knows how long the Eskmos had
 used this metallic mass, chipping off frag- ments to give q cutting edge to their | knives. It is probably an immense aerolite. l Guided by natives. Peary found it down | the west coast of Greenland. Partly bed- | ded in the ground the big brown mass lies 1 in a cove at the head of the bay and on | the southern slope of a range of low hills. It slants southward on the slope of the | hill on which it rests. Seen from above 1 the stone is of an irregular, rounded, | trapezodial shape, with circumference 1 of eleven feet q maximum length of four feet three inches and a maximum width of three feet three inches. The highest protrudes above the ground fifteen inches. | The weight may be 10000 pounds. depend | ing upon the depth of it's penetration into
 the carts It's surface is of q dark brown
 rust color interspersed with small, | greenish pits. The stone is apparently l pure iron. easily cut with a knife, and | wherever scraped presents bright. sl- very uster. The stone used to be much | longer, but constant loss of material | taken by the Eskmos has decreased it's | size.
 | Mrs Peary has told this story of | Christmas spent in her Arctic home: ''It
 would have been dusk if l had imported my Christmas Eve from New York before | 1 had finished the decorating of the room. l would have rung for lights at home, but
 the lights had been burning all day and every day for weeks so that operation was | unnecessary. The long evening passed | quickly away in the genial company of our | little daughter, now oyer three months | old, who entertained us with songs @ l and laughter in alternate but unequal parts Despite the fact that she had spent | two-thirds of her life without the light of the sun she was the roundest, rosest
 merriest baby in all Greenland, and, in | fact, was told by the natives, young and old that she was the finest 'kabloonah
 mickaninny' (white mans baby) they had
 ever seen-they might have added and the only one
 Santa Claus Arrives. | q was so accustomed to have MT. Peary | jump up and rush out at all hours that 1 | paid no particular attention to his de- | parture when he suddenly glanced at the | clock and dashed wildly out of the room | A few moments later feeling n rush of | cold air, I called out the usual warning about a draught on the baby, and not | hearing the door close looked up to see | the cause of the delay. l beheld my hus- band struggling with goodsized box
 which he finally succeeded In bringing | into the middle of the room. On inspect ing this mysterious looking bundle more closely I found 1t bore the following le- gend:
 e. MT and Mrs. R. M. Peary, Anniver- sary Lodge. BowdoIn bay. Greenland. Per Santa Claus. To be delivered and opened Christmas eve at midnight. .'Involuntarily l glanced at the clock ard found 1t lacked only q minute of the specified time, and I understood at once MT Peary's haste. Christmas had come. The lid was half off when the clock be- gan to strike, and I heard the man on watch call out;
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