Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29
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opinion of one of the Eskimos that tf any one in the party had been just little heavier or had they been bur dened with little more weight they never would have made the passage which meant their salvation.
 With the experience I gained in my last voyage" the explorer says, T am going over precisely the same route that followed with the Roose- welt. But when leave the ship for the dash across the Polar basin am going to strike further to the west- ward so that the drift of the ice to the eastward which was, one of the most important things I discovered in my last voyage, will carry me direct ly toward the pole. Heretofore it was the general impression that the ice in the Polar basin drifted to the vest ward, but we found it was just the reverse of this. By striking of to the west, and then veering around in quarter circle toward the northeast, think my course will carry me direct- ly to the pole" Then, he added, as If that dismissed the subject forever, Then mean to head directly for the north coast of Greenland, from which it will be only few miles across the channel to the north shore of Grant land, where the Roosevelt will be in her winter quarters"
 In these few words he discussed his plan, plan that means leaving New York about July l, taking his real de. parture from North Sydney ten days later, picking up his Eskimo men. women and children around Melville Bay in another ten days. taking on his last supply of coal at Etah, sailing from that place and dropping all touch with the civilized world at the same time within a month from the time he answers the last farewell "toot, toot," of some grimy tugboat in the East river. After leaving Etah he expects it will take less than a month before he will again berth the Roosevelt against the ice.foot along the northeast coast of Grant land. And then will be before Peary and his crew of 20 men, his Eskimo and his dogs the seven months of constant preparation before the final stage of the final dash across the ice of the Polar basin begins.
 In only one respect will his outfit" for this journey differ from that of his last one, but this is a detail on which he counts not only for making better time, but also to make the Roosevelt even more reliable ship than she has already proved herself to be. This is the fitting of her engine room with a full battery" of Scotch boilers in place of the two boilers which gave him so much trouble on his last trip. The two water tube boilers broke down the second day out from North Sydney in 1905 and for the rest of the voyage up to Grant land that fall and back again last summer Peary had to depend on the remaining two boilers alone.
 Everything else about the Roose. welt. her crew and her equipment, will be precisely the same as on the voyage of 19O5-06. The same naviga. tor and ice pilot. Robert A. Bartlett. will sail under Peary's command. and the crew will be made up of Maine fishermen and hardy Newfoundland. CTS. The Esklmos will join the expe. dition in the same place. and 1t is more than likely that one of this number will be the 'Furthest north" baby who was born while the Eskimos were living on the ice. encamped near the ship, while they were in winter quarters in the winter of 1905. Com. mander Peary always takes the entire families of Eskimos with him, for he has found the women to be invaluable workers in the winter preparations for the final dash across the ice.
 To see Peary nowadays. active. fuil of schemes. plans and ambitions for his next chance to win again. is to realize the indomitable spirit of the man. For Commander Peary i'm. presses any one who talks to him that inevitable. final abandonment of any. thing he sets out to do is an imposst- bility.