The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-09-18

and shaped like q football by ex.
cessed reflection, Just raised itself
ABOVE the horizon for a few minutes
ana then disappeared again. 1t was
tne first time l had seen II since DC.
tober 1. W.
fortunately on March II, the lead
was practicable. and leaving a note
Tor Marven and Borup to push on AT.
ter US by forced marches, we pre.
ceeded northward. The sounding OF
the lead gave 40 fathoms. During
THIS march We cross the eighty.fourth
parallel and traversed a succession of
1ust.frozen leads from a few hundred
Yards to a mile In width. This march
was really simple. On the 18th we
got Tree OF the leads and came on
decent going. While we were waiting
courier came from Marven and in.
formed ME he was on the march in
the rear. The temperature vase.
Inc following morning. March II,
sent Hansen with his division north
10 pioneer a trail for five marches,
and DR.. Goodsell. according to pro.
Gram. started back to Cape Columbia.
AT nj ght Marven and Borup. came
spinning In with their men and dogs,
steaming in the bitter air like
squadron OF battleships. Their arri-
val relieved me Of all anxiety as to
my oil supply.
At the end OF two short marches
VIC came upon Hansen and his party
In camp. mendihg their sledges. We
devoted the remainder OF the day to
o"erhauling and mending sledges. On
the next morning put Marven in the
lead to pioneer the trail, with instruc-
tlnn9 ka r,h 20,
bring up our average, which had been
cut down by the last two short ones.
Marven carried out his instructions
implicitly.
One Party Travels While Other
Sleeps.
considerable amount OF young ice
assisted In this. At the end OF the
tenth march. latitude SIS degrees %
minutes. Borup turned back In com.
Mand OF the second supporting party,
having travelled a distance equivalent
to Nansen's distance from this far to
his farthest north.
From this point the expedition com.
priced twenty men. ten sledges ami
seventy dogs. II was necessary for
Mnrven to take sledge from here,
and put Bartlett and his division In
advance to pioneer the trail.
At our position nj the end OF the
second march Marven obtained salts.
factory sight for latitude in clear
weather which placed US ut SIS degrees
~ minutes. This result agreed very
satisfactory with the dead reckoning
OF Marven. Bartlett and myself. Up
n this time the slight altitude Of the
sun had made 1t not worth while TO
waste time In observations. In the
next two marches the going improved
and we covered good distances.
In one OF these marches a lead de.
layed us = few hours. We finally
ferried across on the Ice cakes. The
IDENTITY for a record. and recled off a
plump twenty miles. Here Marvin oh.
tanned satisfactory sight on latitude,
which gave the position ms SC de.
grees IS minutes Tor beyond the
fafthcxt north OF NanScn and Abrux.i)
and showed that we had covered nifty
minutes Of latitude In three marches.
BE careful! Of the lcadT. my boy"
The party from this point com.
prised nine men. seven Rlcdgcs and
sixty dogs. The conditions At this
camp and the apparently unbroken
expnnsc Of fairly level Ice In every d..
rcction reminded me OF Cagni's dc.
scription Of bis farthest north, but /
WAS not deceived by tho apparently
favorable outlook. for available condi.
tons never continue for any distance
or any length Of time In the Arctic re.
Kions. The rorth march wound over
good going. bit for the first time since
leaving land We experienced that con.
dillon, frequent over thcAe leo fields.
Of . haxy atmosphere. In which the
light IL equal everywhere. All relief
ID destroyed and Il 10 Impossible 10
see for any distance. We were
obliged In this match to make Q do.
tour around IN opsn lead. In the next
march We encountered the heaviest
and deepest snow Of the journey. q
thick. smothcrinG mantle lying In the
came up on bartlett and bis party.
aged By the heart.rackinw work OF
the matter with them: thcy wsrs
simply spoiled BY the eocd going on
the previous marches. rallied them
. Bit. iighteped their siedges and ssnt
them on. encouraged. again.
Ice Opens Almost Osnsath the leiess.
During tho next march We went
through thick fog driven BY q biting
ar from the northeast. A. The ed os
the Aoeah ve eAn4. npQa The captain
cahpS6 VeStaS WI6s Tpsn Ss61 with
0 dsass black water Shy northwest