Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-09-21

n patent charm, and at no single leao
were we delayed more than a couple
IF hours. Sometimes the Ice was fast
and firm enough to carry US across;
sometimes short detour, sometimes a
brief halt for the lead to close, some
times an improvised ferry on an Ice
cake, kept tie trail without difficulty
down to the tenth outward march.
Igloos there disappeared completely.
ard the euire region was unrecOg-
nlzahl?. Where on the outward jour-
ney had been narrow cracks there
were row bread leads. one Of them over
five miles In width, caught over with
young joe.
IISie nsuin Torture favored us. ana,
70 pronounced movement OF the Ice
having tai.an p'l.e since the captain
pissed. we ID his trail 10 follow. We
picked up Il. CID trail again north OF
the seventh illoos. followed ii beyond
the fifth and ut the big lead lost II
finally.
From here we followed the captains
trail. and ON April y our sledges pass
ed I'D the vertical edge OF the glacier
fringe little west of Cape Columbia.
When the last sledge came up l
thought my Eskimos had gone crazy.
They yelled and called and danced
themselves helpless. AS Ootah sat
down Oh his sledge he remarked In Es-
kimo:
The Devil Asleep.
"The devil is asleep or having trou-
bic with his wife or we never should
have come back so easily
A few hours later we arrived at
Crane City. under the bluffs of Cape
Columbia, and after putting four
pounds Of pemmican into each OF the
faithful dogs to keep them quiet we
had al last orr chance to sleep.
Never shall | forget that sleep mt
Cape Columbia. 1t was sleep. sleep.
then turn over and sleep again.
Two days we spent here in sleeping
and drying our clothes. then for the
ship.
We reached Hccla I'm one march and
the Roosevelt in another. When we
got to the Roosevelt ! was staggered
by the news of the fatal mishap to
Marvin lie had been either less eau
tious or less fortunate than the rest
of us. ana his death emphasized the
risk To which we had all been subject
ed. for there was not one of us hut
had been i'm the sledge ut some time
during the journey.
The rest can he quickly told. McMil-
Ian and RorlIp had started for the
Greenland coast to deposit caches for
me. Before arrived II flying Eskimo
courier from me overlook them with
instruction. that the caches were no
longer needed and that they were to
concentrate their energies on tidal OBJ
servations. etc. III Cape Norris Is.
JeSup and north from there.
The RooseveIt's Cruise.
These instructions were carried out
and after their return in the latter part
of May Mcmillan made some further
lNtuI bIStIN 1T 'tiI'i loi''+'' 80
supplies remaining ut the various
caches were brought in. and Oh Juiy
Is the Roosevelt left her winter quar-
tiers and WAS driven out into the chan
nei pack of Cape Union.
She fought her way south In the
center of the channel AMI passed Cape
Sabine on Aug. 8. or thirty-nine days
earlier than in 1908 and thirly-two
days earlier than the British eXpedi-
ton in 1876.
We picked up Whitney and his party
and the stores ut Etah. We killed
seventy odd walrus for my Eskimos,
whom | landed at their homes. We
met the Jeanne Off Saunders island and
took over her coal and cleared from
Cape York on Aug. 20, one month
earlier than in 1906.
On Sept. ) we arrived at Indian Har-
Dor. whence the message. stars ana
stripes nailed to north pole" was sent
vibrating southwark through the crisp
Labrador air