The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-12

on this trip In the midst Of long wastes
"h3 II degrees from the pole, his daUgh
northward from Anniversary lodge or
whale sound this season. and has him
SER described the conditions he had L
race on some OF them.
The cold was intense" he SAYS, "for
we were 5000 or 700 feet above sea
level, and a cease less torrent of icy vino
swept down from the still higher regions
OF interior Greenland. pouring from the
center of that huge white continent tC
the coast. And the wind brought with Il
q flood of seething kissing. binding
snow The dogs fought continually, and
at feeding time they were turned into
raging demons
They Faced Starvation.
A little later NE tells how ne and his
men faced starvation, and how after a
desperate hunt for musk OK il came tc
this
AS we lay there behind our boulder
watching the big black musk oxen they
were not game to us. but meat. we We're
not hunters but blOodthirsty savages
When we were fifty yards off. big bull
sank his head. 7 pointed my rifle, aiming
az the back of the neck above the shield
of his horns. The bullet meant our lives
IL 10 missed and the herd charged we
would be crushed like ice crystals The
shot went true. The great bull fell
Peary went north again i'm 1896 and
brought back with him some small masses
of mCteOric iron. Again in 1897 he went.
and the result this tins was a tremen-
dous block of rhetoric metal that weighed
almost le0 tons.
His next expedition was the one that
extended over four wears. His ship was
the WludWard. owned then by the pres
ent Lord Northcliffe, then Mr.. Harms
worth On Dec. 90 1898 abandoning the
Wmdward. ne set out over the ice with
his men for Fort COnEer.
At Cape Desfosse pitch darkness came
upon them. Their supplies gave out and
their endurance, too, was all but spent
frozen feet they reached Fort Congcr.
They could do little more. and when they
had beaten their way back to the ship
eight Of Peary's toes had to be ampu-
tated.
The rest OF the year Peary spent i'm ex-
ploratiOn, and ON Aus. . the Windward
made port at EtGh. the base of operations
TOR the coming seaSOn-and for future eN-
petitions From the information he had
gathered ne later made the first authen-
tic maps of Buchanan bay. BaChe PENN
Sula, and the Princess Marie bay region
Besides. he had established q series of
caches from Cape Sabine to Fort COuger.
In 1890, pushing again 10 Fort COnger.
me made further explorations. The result
was that while determining the northern
limit of the Greenland archipelago ne
eliminated from his mind this coast route
as practicable i'm reaching the pole
The marches of that year were exhaust
ing The band fell into zones of high
snow Tre51 ,sra etorr,5o,In5 nv Terrific
icy gales they passed over fragments of
go 49, Ii7 - +1,, .r--, H.,
r1d tn vI-af+ I'M Tho ral,7rcs r,-orlI7 rr--fD5
foratI7ar So desperate vs. tho sf+ratfo1
ti,, ,l+ Ie,-,,T ,oZr isI,3J
tr-a+ De- ,,.,,ta IN, his io7,,,,sI nv,
Er,-.i1 81
..,r-I. lrs,,, 10 nm Nv 5r.,,, of sfv
rae71 ,-eg7-s is ended If ,,1asrs4 drrr.irq
trra -,ig-- and 5Te cor under w. tIlfs
177--rf,-r me-, eror,- IT,, small floas
Then another ueriod of old r11bbfes and
dasn snow ms evraDdir7e- north sofIf-
ar,7 yt-ae+ as far as No rrIrId eaa 7 have
made tna hest firnt I know. cannot
7rromnIfsH the imnossibIe 90.
Ina flSlt ,g 5l,,y -'.5 +,,, ---,'' -
d. tlr5 F.--f NJ I9-f+,r5a 49, 81 d.
60 \ r9irrIraz y zaron6s and fine mas
Ts+ir y-sriatioT "a Farraas v-ast With inc
-lTga+as+ issrdsbfr t--sz- baat hack tn tTa
Shin and SAILING reached SYDNEY Cane
r}r-.+or nm sent II The ayDadition had
t...eD fo g-' ylar three months ana TEN
fars
r.. C..-4 D.I.- D-.t,o-
wv N'97' O'9'
All these years i'm the bleak arctic APP
pear now as only preparatory to what
came later. The two great sDUrts Tor
the pole that followed would not have
been possible otherwise. His most uota-
bile accomplishments up to- this date were
these The discovery of Melville Land
and Heiipriu Land out beyond Greenland
the determination of the insulaTlty of
Greenland. and the discovery and naming
OF tine most uOrtherly point I'm the world,
Cape Morris X Jesup-
Pearys dash for the pole began ON July
Dc 1906 from sydney. Cape Breton. Tie
was necrfIfarrv constructed for his pur-
pose Win us screw re LgU@ 10 biHd DC
together us Almost Sollu lllA"E III at N.55
BOWS, us l-aNlN dii"oieo STERN anu