New-York tribune., 1907-01-27
NEAREST THE POLE.

At storm Camp we abandoned everything not
absolutely necessary and bent every energy TO
rsfting 9 record pace.
The first march Of ten hours. myself I'm the
lead with the compass, sometimes on a dog trot
he sledges following I'm Indian file with drivers
running beside or behind, placed US thirty miles
10 the good-my Esquimaus said forty Four
hours out on the second march ! overlook Hen
son In this third camp, beside a lead which was
closed When ] arrived. he hitched up and fol-
lowed behind my hurryiDg party ] had with
me now seven men and six teams with less than
half a load for each.
As We advanced the character of the ice i'm
proved, the foes becoming much larger and
PRESSURE ridges infrequent, but the cracks and
narrow leads increased and were nearly all ac-
tive. These cracks We're uniformly at right an
gles our course and the ice on the northern
side was moving more rapidly eastward than
that the southern.
As dogs gave out. unable to keep the pace.
they were FED 10 the others. April 20 We came
into a region of open leads. grending nearly
north and south. and the ice motion became
more pronounced. Hurrying on between these
leads. forced march was made Then we slept
a few hours. and. starting again soon after mid
night pushed on tin noon OF the 2lst
Ny observation then gave 81 degrees min
utes SO Tar as history records this is the
nearest approach 10 the North Pole ever made
BY human beings.
I thanked God with as good a grace as possi-
bic for what ] had been able to accomplish.
though il was but an empty bauble compared
with the splendid jewel for which was strain
inC my life out. But, looking at the skeleton
forms of my remaining dogs and the nearly
empty sledges, and bearing in mind the drifting
ice and the unknown quantity OF the big lead
between us and the nearest land I felt that I
had cut the margin as narrow as could be rea-
sonably expected
Ny flags Were lung out from the summit Of
the highest pinnacle near rs and a hundred
feet or 50 beyond this left a bottle containing
2 brief record and a piece Of the silk flag Nvbic n
SIX years before ] had carried around the north
ern end II ACCOMPLISHMENTS r r Peary.
IN Harper's Magazine
THE OLD WORLD CHARM OF QUEBEC.
Dear, delightful old Quebec. with her gray
walls and shining tin roofs: her PERCEPTIONS
heao!onE streets and sleepy squares and espla-
nades; her narrow alleys and peaceful converts;
her harmless antique cannon on The parapets
and her sweet toned bells in the spires: her
towering chateau on the heights and her long.
low queer smelling warehouses in the lower
town; her spich and span caieches and her
dusy trolley cars; her sprinkliug of soldiers and
sailors with Scotch accent and Irish brogue and
COckneN tW2nS on p DaCkCrounG Of petite
bourgeoisie speaking the quaintest Of French dia-
leCts; her memories OF an adventurous. glitter
ing past and her placid cOntentment with the
daylight outlook over the vale Of the S. Charles
The level shore Of MOntmorenci the green lie
dOrieanS dividing the shining reaches Of the
broad ST. Lawrence. and the blue Laurentian
Mountains rolling far 10 the eastward-and at
night, the dark bulk OF the citadel outlined
against the starry blue the tramping of many
1eet up and down the wooden pavement of the
terrace the chattering and the laughter the
music Of the military hand and far below. the
hUc0led houSetOps, the silent wharVes the lights
OF the great warshil,s swinging with the tide
the intermittent feTTyhoats plying 10 and fro
the twinkling lamps Of Lewis rising along the
dim southern shore and reflected on the lansing
curling seaNard sliding waves Of the great
river! Whnt city OF the New World keeps so
much of the charm OF the Old?-Henrv Van
Dyke IN Scribner's MAGAZINE