Putnam patriot., 1909-09-17


 sigfenf. bsft 1 had fo reason to com l plain IT was better tlian an easteriy ] eF ~ nth.ily wind. either of which
 sg0eE have sct us aafift in open wa ] fer waile thls was closing np every ] ie i i4siiad Thls furnished another i eappnsage of r9. supporting parties. | 'fFue Hg s9 dsiiix z gas pressing fo I aA s4e i erst Bhleli wa trtv-
 eEse ari sJ r65Silg as of a hundred ] si e ef adVsataee.
 9sftissts Far asrth.
 V-e e5usin.itd Ne 8tre en or near the e5s atg-fithts parallel aHiess tie north l EiHd l.d lost as several miies. Tue l sid nles all night and ail the fOl- ] ieNsH,z day Al thi- camp in the sstfHiHe Bartlett started u walk five
 aT sfz miles fo He B6Th to make sure if Ia hiHg fife eIvhty eighth parallel. Bartlett returHed in time to take ] s8 isfaetafy observation for latitude ! 'fg dear Waatlier and obtained for our ls.sifioH s7fs. aud that showed that i hp continued north wind had robbed
 IS If number of miles of hard earned l distance.
 i Bariett took the observations here, IS had Marvin five calAps back. partly | 70 Sdve Iny eyes. bui largely to give 1 an Independent record and defermina- 1 tIen of our advance The observations 1 completed and two copies made. one 1 for him and the other for me. Bartlett 1 started on the baek trail in command of my fourth supporting party with Eskimos. l sIedge and IS dogs. l With the disappearance of Bartlett | 1 turned to the problem before me. 1 As for my pnrty, my equipment and | my supplies. was in shape beyond 1 my most sanguine dreams of earliest | years. My pgrty might be regarded as ! an ideal which had now come te reali- | zatlon.
 | Four of them carried the technique | Of dogs. sledses. ice and cold as their I heritage Two of them. Hansen and
 Detam. were my companions to the l farthest point three years before. Two
 others. Egiugwah and Sigloo, were in 1 Clark's division which had such mar l row escape at thui time. The fifth was 1 il young man who was if possible even
 more willing and eager than the others | for the princt;ly gifts boat, a rifle. | 2 shotgun ammunition. knives, etc | which l had promised. for he knew 1 that these riches would enable him to
 wrest from Il stubborn father the girl | whose image flied his young heart. l lie Plans Five Marches. l had no fault te find with the con | ditlons My dogs we're the very best | the pick of l22 with which we left ] Columbia My siedges. now that the | repairs were completed, were in good
 condition. My supplies were ample | fof forty dnys and, with the reserve
 represented by the dogs themselves, could be made to last fifty, decided l that | should Strain every nerve to | make five marches of fifteen miles | each. crewding these marches in such | way as to bring Us to the end of The fifth long enough before noon to l permit the immediate taking of an | observation for latitude.
 | Weather and leads permitting, 1 be | lieeeel could dc this If my proposed l distances were cut down by any l chance 1 had two means in reserve for making up ths deficit;
 First. tc nuke the lust march
 forced one stepping te make tea and
 resi the degs, hui not te sleep.
 Second at the end of the fifth march l % make il forced marth with light
 sleelge double team Of dogs and one
 ar two 1f thu party. leaving the rest in
 camp.
 Underlying All fhese calculations were
 recognition of the ever present neigh | ! rlnad of open leads and impossible | a;5lcr and fhr knowledge that twen- | " four hnur 3slle would knock all my l mans into 2 eeeked hal and even pnt
 as in imMtbcht peril
 | A iAtit after midnight of April | |. after a few hours of sound sleep. l hit the trail leaving the others to | break ur cantn and follow. It was | ane mornius The wind of the last l M days had suhsided and the going | vas the best and most eluable of any haa had yet
 l sci n goud pace for abont ten hours. Twenty-Five miles took me well | bevpnd tlig rizlty-eIghth parallel.
 While was building my isioos bong l aaad flrmeti h4 he east and southeast l ef nS II distance of q few miles. | few hours sieep and we were on the l trnii again The wea ther WIS fine and The going like that of inc previous day. l except ai the beginning, when pick | axes were required This and brief l stop at anatlsr lead cut down our l aiStauee hnt We had nade twenty l niles in ten heurs and were halfway l to the eighty ninth parallel
 | Again therg Nas few hours stop. l and we hli the rail before midnight | We marched something over ten hours. the dogs being often on the trot. and | alsGe twenty miles. Near the end | nf the niareh n Vt rushed across a lead l io0 wards wide which buckled under ,us sI,sisscs ant finally broke as the | iasi sle.lge lefi 1t.
 l Ne steppea in sight of the eighty | ninlh parallel in temperature of io | ieSrcss below. Again >eant sleep l and We were an our way once more
 and aer.sS the eighty-ninth parallel. l This march duplicated the previous que a> to weather and going. The hast | few hours if was on young te, and | occasionally the lags were gslioping. | We made twenty five miles ar more. the air. the sky and the bitter wind | burning tin, face till il cracked. It was l ike the gr,at interior ice cap ef Green | land. Even the natives complained of | tfk.kA Af lf | A k.s.aH aS Fst-