Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-09-17
PUT UP FOR WINTER.


on the ground and the new Ice inside
the foe bergs was much thicker.
The work of discharging the ship
was commenced at once and rushed
to completion. The supplies and
equipment we sledged across ice and
sea and deposited on shore. A house
and workshop were built of board.
covered with sails, and fitted With
stoves, and the ship was snug for win
ter in shoal water, where it touched
bottom at low tide.
This settlement on the stormy
shores of the Arctic ocean was chris
tened Hubbardville.
Hunting parties were sent out on
September 10 and bear was brought
in on the 18th and some deer q day
or two later.
PREPARE FOR sLED0E TRIP.
On September Is the full work of
transferring supplies to Cape Columbia
was inaugurated. Marvin with DR..
Goodsall and Borup and the Eskimos,
took 10 sledge loads of supplies to
Cape Belknap, and on the 9th the
same party started with loads to Por.
ter bay.
The work Of hunting and transport.
ing supplies was prosecuted continu
ously by the members of the party
and the Eskimos until November s.
when the supplies for the spring
sledge trip had been removed from
winter quarters and deposited at va.
rious places from Cape Colan to Cape
Columbia.
The latter part of September the
movement of the Ice subjected the
ship to pressure which listed 1t to
port some eight or ten degrees, and
1t did not recover till the following
spring.
On October 1 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 IL musk oxen, bear and
q deer.
Later in October l repeated the
trip, obtaining five musk oxen. and
hunting parties secured some forty
deer.
Prof. Macmillan went to Columbia
bay in November and obtained q
month of tidal observations, returning
in December. In the December moon
Borup moved the Hecla depot to Cape
| Colan. Bartlett made hunting trip
overland to Lake Hazen and Hansen
went to Clemant's Markham inlet.
In the January moon Maryen
crossed Robson channel and went
to Cape Bryant for tidal and meteoro-
logical observations. Bartlett crossed
the channel and made the circuit of
Newman bay and explored the peniA-
sula. After he returned Goodsall
went to Markham inlet and Borup to-
ward Lake Hazen, in the interior. on
hunting trips.
In the February moon Bartlett went
to Cape Hecla, Goodsall moved some
more supplies, from Hecla to Cape Co
Ian, and Borup went to Markham in
let on hunting trip. On February
Is Bartlett left the Roosevelt with
his division for Cape Columbia and
Parr bay.
Goodsall. Borup, Macmillan and
with their provisions. Marvin 70.
turned from Cape Bryant on February
II and left for Cape Columbia on
February 81. brought up the rear
on February %.
The total of all divisions leaving the
Roosevelt was seven members of the
party, 50 Eskimos. 40 dogs and 90
sledges.
MAKE READY FOR DASH.
BY February 81 such of the Cape
Colan depot as was needed had been
brought up to Cape Columbia, the
dogs were rested and double rationed
and harnessed, and the sledges and
other gear overhauled.
Four months of northerly winds
during the fall and winter instead of
southerly ones, as during the previous
season, led me to expect less open
water than before, but great deal of
rough ice, and l 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 Bart
lett, with his pioneer division. accom-
plished this, and his division got away
due north over the ice on March 1.
The rest of the party got away on
Bartlett's trail, and followed an hour
later.
The party now comprised seven
members of the expedition. II Eski-
mos, 1873 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 chris
tened 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.
r We camped ten miles from Crane
City. The easterly wind and low tenn
perature continued. In the second
march we passed the British record
made by Markham in May. 1876.
s2.2O-and were stopped by open wa
ter, 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