The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-12
PART II.

Copyright 1909. by the New York Time.
Company,
Battle Harbor, Labrador tvla Mar
conf Wireless, Cape Ray. n. F.. Sept
l0.-The steamer Roosevelt, bearing
| the North polar expedition of the
Peary Arctic club, parted company
| with the Erik and steamed out of
Etah ford late In the afternoon of
! August is, 1908, setting the usual
course for Cape Sabine The weather
was dirty, with fresh southerly winds.
We had on board % Eskimo men. l.
women and 10 children, ZIG dogs and
| some forty-odd walrus.
We encountered the ice a short dis
tance from the mouth of the harbor,
| but it was not closely packed and was
negotiated by the Roosevelt without
serious difficulty, As we neared Cape
Sabine the weather cleared somewhat
and we passed close by Three Wort
island and Cape Sabine, easily max
ing out with the naked eye the house
at Hayes Harhor occupied by me In
the winter of 190i02.
From Cape Sabine north there was
SO much water that we thought Of
setting the lug sail before the south.
erly wind; but little later appear
ance OF ice to the northward stopped
this, There was clean, open water to
Cape Albert and from there scattered
ice to point about abreast of Vic
toria Head, thick weather and dense
Ice bringing US some len or fifteen
miles away.
Clear Run Through Middle Robson.
From here we drifted south some.
what, and then got a slant to the
northward Of the current. We worked
a little further north and stopped
again for some hours Then we again
worked westward and northward till
we reached series of lakes, coming
to a stop few miles south Of the
Windwards winter quarters at Cane
Durvillc, From here, after some de-
lay, we slowly worked a way north.
westward through fog and broken ice
TO medium thickness through one
night and the forenoon of the next
day, only merging into open water
and clear weather Off Cape Fraser,
From this point we had clear run
through the middle Of Robson chan
mel, uninterrupted by either ice or
fog, to Lady Franklin bay Here we
both ice and fog. and,
while working along in search of a |
opening, were forced /
across to the Greenland coast AT I
Thank God harbor /
The fog lifted there and enabled us I
to make out our whereabouts, and I
we steamed north through a series of /
leads past Cape Lupton and thence
toward Cape Union. A few (
miles of than cape we were stopped |
by impracticable ice, and we drifted
back south to Cape Union, where we
stopped again.
We lay for some time in a lake Of
water, and then. to prevent being
lrifted south again took refuge under
the north shore of Lincoln bay. In
nearly the identical place where we
had Our unpleasant experiences three
gears before. Here we remained for
several days during a period of con
slant, and, at times, violent northeast.
srlv winds.
Twice we were forced aground by
he heavy ice; we bad our port-uuarter
all broken, and hole stove In the
and twice we pushed out
IN an attempt to get north, but we
were forced back each time to our
shelter.
Anchored in Shallow Niche.
Finally, on September 2, we
around Cape Union, and
made fast in shallow niche in the
&c: but after some hours we made
mother short run 10 Black cape and
lung on to grounded bit of ice. AT
asst. little after midnight of Sep
emher s. we passed through extreme
y heavy running ice into stream
II open water. rounded Cape Rawson
md passed Cape sheridan.
Within quarter of an hour of the
same time we arrived three years be.
a. m. September 5--we reach.
ri the open water extending beyond
cape Sheridan. We steamed ND to +
he end OF 1t and II appeared practica-
ale ar ftrsf IN ranch pnrtan ha,. ru~m
lape joaseph Henley which had for
NY winter quarters. But the outlook
lelng unsatisfactory, went back and
'a' the Roosevelt into the only open.
ms IN the foe. being barred close
TO the mouth Of the Sheridan river
q little north OF our position three
years prior.
The season was further advanced
than In 1905. There was more snowsI