Gilpin observer., 1909-09-16

PUT UP FOR WINTER.
| The season was further advanced than
| In 1905; there snow on the
sround and the new ice inside the foe
| bergs was much thicker.
The work of discharging the ship was
| commenced at once and rushed to com
pletion. The supplies and equipment we
| sledged across Ice and sea and deposited
1 on shore. house and workshop were
| built OF board. covered with sails, and
| fitted with stoves. and the ship
| snug for winter in shoal water. where 1t
| touched bottom at low tide.
| The settlement on the stormy shores of
| the Arctic ocean was christened Hub
| bardvile
Hunting parties were sent out on Sep
tember 10 and bear was brought in on
the 18th and some deer day two
later.
PREPARE FOR sLEpeE TRIP.
| On September Is the rull work of trans
| ferring supplies to Cape Columbia was
| inaugurated. Marvin with DIR. Good
sail and Borup and the Eskimos. took l6
sledge loads of supplies to Cape Belknap
| and on the 9th the same party started
| with loads to Porter bay.
| The work of hunting and transporting
| supplies was prosecuted continuously by
| the members of the party and the Eski-
| mos until November s. when the sup
| plies for the spring sledge trip had been
removed from winter quarters and de-
| posted at various places from Cape Co.
| Ian to Cape Columbia.
| The latter part of September the move
ment of the Ice subjected the ship to
pressure which listed it to port some
eight or ten degrees. and it did not
cover till the following spring.
On October l l went on a hunt with two
| Eskimos across the field and Pass bay
| and the peninsula, made the circuit of
| Clemants Markham inlet and returned
to the ship in seven days with 10 musk
oxen, a bear and a deer.
Later in October l repeated the trip.
| obtaining five musk oxen, and hunting
parties secured some 40 deer.
SUPPLIES MOVED TO BASE.
| In the February moon Bartlett went to
Cape Hecla. Goodsall moved some more
| supplies from Hecla to Cape Colan. and
Borup went to Markham inlet on a hunt
| Ing trip. On February Is Bartlett left
| the Roosevelt with his division for Cape
| Columbia and Parr bay.
Goodsall. Borup. Macmillan and Han
| sen followed on successive days with
| their provisions. Marvin returned from
Cape Bryant on February II and left for
| Cape Columbia on February q. brought
up the rear on February %
The total of all divisions leaving the
Roosevelt was seven members of the
| party. So Eskimos. 40 dogs and % sledges.
MAKE READY FOR DASH.
By February "a such of the Cape Colan
| depot needed had been brought
up to Cape Columbia. the dogs were
rested and double rationed and harnessed.
and the sledges and other gear over
hauled.
| Four months OF northerly winds during
| the fall and winter instead of souther-
ly ones. as during the previous season.
led me to expect less open water than
before, but a great deal OF rough ice, and
/ was prepared to hew a road through
the Jagged ice for the first hundred miles
or SO, then cross the big lead
BARTLETT LEADS THE WAY.
On the last day OF February Bartlett.
with his pioneer division. accomplished
| this. and his division got away due
| north over the ice on March l. The rest
of the party got away Bartletts
trail. and l followed an hour later.
The party now comprised seven men,
| bers Of the expedition. II Eskimos. l33
dogs and 10 sledges. One Eskimo and
seven dogs had gone to pieces.
A strong easterly wind. drifting
snow. and temperature in the minus
marked our departure from the camp at
Cape Columbia, which / had christened
| Crane City. Rough ice in the first march
| damaged several sledges and smashed
TWO beyond repair the teams going back
to Columbia for other sledges in reserve
there
PASS BRITISH RECORD.
We camped ten miles from Crane City.
The eastsrly wind and low temperature
| continued. In the second march we
passed the British record made by Mark
ham in May. lSI6-se.e eo-and were stopped
| by open water. which had been formed
| by wind after Bartlett passed.
In this march we negotiated the lead
| and reached Bartlett's third camp. Borup
had gone back from here. but missed his.
way, owing to the fauiting of the trail
| by the movement of the ice.
| Marvin came back also for more fuel
and alcohol The wind continued. form
ing open water all about us. At the end
| OF the fourth march we came upon
I,aA IA-s
wide lake of open water. We remained
| here from March to March II.
GETS GLIMPSE OF SUN.
| At noon of March the sun. red and
shaped like football by excessed re-
Election. just raised itself above the hori-
| zon for few minutes and then disap-
peared again. 1t was the first time had
| seen II since October !.
| 1 now began to feel 4 good deal of
anxiety because there were no signs
OF Marvin and Borup. who should have
been there for two days. Besides. they
| had the alcohol and oil, which were in
| dispensable for us.
We concluded that they had either lost
the trail or were imprisoned on an is
| land by open water. probably the latter
Fortunately. on March II the lead was
| practicable and, leaving a note for Mar
| vim and Borup to push on after us by
| forced marches, we proceeded northward
The sounding of tho lead gave ITO
| fathoms.
During this march we crossed the
| eighty-fourth parallel and traversed a
succession of just frozen leads, from a
few hundred yards to mile In width,
| This march was really simple.
On the fourteenth we got free OF the
lends and came on decent going. While
| We were making camp a courier from
Marvin came and Informed me he was
on the march In the rear. The temper
ature was 60 below zero. ~
The following morning. March Is, l sent
| Hansen with his division north to pio-
neer trail for Ave marches. and DR..
Goodsell. according to the program, start
ed back to Cape Columbia.
M'MlllAN TURNS BACK.
At night Marvin and Borup came spin
ming in with their men and dogs steam
| Ing In the bitter mir like n anundrnn of