The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-03

the inland ice, when musk OK meat was the
only resource that enabled him 70 retrace
his steps go miles to his camp on Ingleieid
Gulf.
II seems evident from the great northing
he has made that as long as he had firm
ice under his feet the conditions OF ice
travel were better than those he made
on his previous trip over this same part
OF the sea in the spring OF 1907.
As We went further NORTH he said OF
that trip, "our difficulties were increased
by deep soft snow. This heavy covering
on the pressure ridges greatly increased
the work OF crossing them. II we had
not needed every man with the dog teams
and could lave spared a few for pioneer
and reconnaissance work we should have
made more rapid progress. II we had had
rioneers thev would have gone ahead and
marked out the track. One Of them would
have assembled a high outlook on a ridge
and fixed the place on the next ridge where
il might be crossed most easily. Then
they would have gor ahead to prepare
the track across the ridge. We had to do
our recommending and track making
while the sledges stood still"
On this journey PeaTy reached 81 degrees
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further north thar the starting point Of
Markham over the same ice he reached
Markham's farthest, a degrees 20 minutes,
in two days, a journey that the English
. explorer was %thirty-one in making. Peary
went on with two men for sixty-five and
a half miles further before the ice con-
ditions became 40 bad that there was no
use in struggling northward any longer.
a. = A. -ArNhnar ri tpaVrnnU he
could not advance more than a mile a day.
| Peary could hardly have encountered
! such terrible difficulties last spring. with
mountainous ice ridges and soft snow. as
he did in 1902 or he could not have made
80 great a northing over the ice.
This il doubtless the last Of Peary's Arctic
! enterprises and his last work is tho croWning
! feature Of a remarkable series OF achleve-
ments. He will be ranked among the few
great leaders in polar endeavor. Excepting
for the breaking up of the ice. which de-
troyed his hope Of reaching the pole. nls
expedition seems to have been remarkably
favored by fortune. .
He threaded the ice choked Smith Sound
! channels last summer and o his vessel
back through them this season. a feat
that has never been achieved but once
before in 80 short a time. and that was by
the Proteus, when she too the Greedy party
north and returned in the same season.
He succeeeed in reaching the land base
he sought, and in spite of the terrible perils
his party met he is bringing every man
pack home. He has been away only fifteen
| months and he has the highest northing
made in any part Of the Arctic to his credit
Most prominent among Pesry's earlier
geographical achievements are his two
Journeys over the ice cap OF Greenland,
which nave been regarded as in the highest
class Of sledgo work; his determination OF
. the northern extension of the inland ice,
his outlining OF a part of the northern coast
of Greenland, his exploration Of the archi-
pelago to the north Of it, bis discovery OF
! the most northern known land (Cape Nor
rs Jesup) and his chronological work among
the Smith Sound H~ighlanders. he has
now added more new land, as his despatch
speaks of land he saw to the north Of Grant
Land.