Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-22
P[ARY Tells Of TRIP
Tells of Hardships and Strug:
giles In Attempt to Reach
North Pole
MADE FuRTHEs-r POINT NORTH
Expedition Attended With Many Hard
ships and Thrilling Escapes - Ship
Twice Abandoned as Doomed to De-
struetion-A Struggle to, Get Back
to Open Sea.

New York Nov. 22.--The first state
ment from Commander Peary covering
his late effort to gain the north pole,
has been received. Mr.. Peary claims
he penetrated to a point further north
than ever reached before. Concerning
his trip north and the overland journey
after the ship Roosevelt was left,
Peary says:
Chateau Bay, Que, Nov 15.-Leav-
ing Etah soon after midnight of Aug.
Is, the Roosevelt encountered heavy
ice off Littleton island, and bored into
It toward Cape Sabine, realizing eX-
pectation in regard to her even tho
very deeply loaded and her boiler pow
er reduced one-half Sabine and Prayer
Harbor were densely packed with ice,
negativing Amy approach, and we
smashed along into open water under
Cape Albert deposited depot of coal,
boats and provisions at Victoria Head,
then steamed in open water to Caps
Fraser. Working the tides from here
we twice reached Cape Collinson, only
to be driven back by the ice. The
Roosevelt was then forced eastward
into the heavy channel pack and after
severe struggle reached loose ice on
the Greenland side off Cape Calhoun,
and steamed north close by the Green
land coast, east past Cape Constitution
and Thank God Harbor. A few miles
north of Cape Ltlpton, sudden mo-
ton of the ice smashed the Roosevelt
against the ice foot and ground her
along Its face until she slipped into a
narrow niche hardly with our heaviest
lines.
This momentary furry twisted the
back Of the rudder, broke the heavy
iron head bands and gave the Roose-
Welt very disagreeable grinding and
squeezing. but did not seriously injure
her.
Rammed Ice Thirty-five Hours.
AS soon as the pressure relaxed we
steamed around Cape Summer and tied
to the fast ice of Newman Bay under
Cape Breevoort Here We remained a
week waiting for a lead to open across
Robinson channel, ice from the north
gradually filling the bay and the water
in which we had come. Again the
Roosevelt deliberately attacked the
dense channel pack and after thirty
Ave hours Of such severe strain as
believed no vessel afloat could have
vyithstood, we reached, Wrangel Bay.
Here the movement of a heavy pan
twisted the back of the rudder until 1T
was nearly torn away, but did not rem
der it entire unserviceabIe.
In Lincoln bay the Roosevelt was
held some time and forced around at
every tide. Them we squeezed around
and early i'm the morning of Sept s,
made fast to the Ice foot under point
OF Cape Sheridan just as the ice closed
in and held us fast.
This ice remained stationary until
the evening of the sixteenth, when a
large foe piled around Sheridan, crush
ing everything before dt. 1t pressed
against our starboard sides. The
Roosevelt was numerically squeezed,
had one blade torn off her propeller and
was lifted until the propeller showed
out of water. On the turn of the tide
she settled back somewhat, but did not
float again until the following sum-
mer. For thirty-six hours, men, won1-
en- and children worked necessarily
landing coal and all supplies and
equipment.
The Sun Goes-Food Spells.
This position became perforce the
Roosevelts winter quarters, tho I had
aimed for Porter bay at Cape Joseph
Henry, twenty-seven miles to the north
and here she remained moored to the
exposed feeo of the Ice foot, with her
nose pointed steadily and stubbornly
to the north. BY Oct. /, 100 muskoxen
and deer had been secured. On Oct.
IL from the summit Of Black cape ]
saw the sun for the last time.
During OeAeber my dogs died rapid
~, the cause being traced to poisoning
from my cured whale meat. Several
tons Of this were thrown away, and
3 faced the proposition Of subsisting my
dogs and Eskirnos upon the country
until the spring feeding season began.
From this time until into February all
the dogs and nearly all Eskimos. with
Marvin and Eazen, lived in snow
houses in Hazen basin and along the
slopes of the United States ranges
subsisting upon 1nuskoxen reindeer,
hare and salmon trout.
Tho Final Desperate Dash.
It was evident that could not long
er count in the slightest degree on the
supporting parties, and that whatever
was to be done must be done by a dash
with the outcome hanging entirely up
on the weather and condition Of the
ice.
At the storm camp we abandoned
everything not absolutely necessary
and bent every energy to setting a rec
ord pace. In the legacy Of retrievable
damage which the storm left us was
one small codicil-such snow as the
wind had not torn from the face of the
foes was beaten and banked hard and
the snow which had fallen had been
hammered into the areas of rough ice
and the shattered edges of the big foes
so that they gave US little trouble.
North of the storm camp we had no
occasion for snowshoes or pickaxes.
The first march of ten hours In the
lead with the compass, sometimes in
a dog trot, the sledges following in
Indian file, with drivers running beside
or behind, placed us thirty miles to the
good my Eskimos said. Forty-four
hours on the second march overlook