The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-10-14
THE HENDERSON LEAF-rHURsDAY oCroBER IA 1902

THURSDAY, OCT(
lead ard vent TO the bottom. OF
went reel ard handle. tightening the
sledges still. further We had no more
use for them now.
Three marches brought US back to
the igloos where the captain turned
back The last march was I'm the wild
sweep of northeriy gale, with drift
ing snow and the ice rocking under us
AZ We dashed over 1t.
Traces of Marvin.
South of where Marvin had turned
back We came to where his party had
built several igIoos while delayed by
open leads Still farther south we
found where the captain had been held
up by an open lead and obliged to
camp. Fortunately, the movement of
these leads was simply open and shut.
and it took considerable water motion
TO fault the trail seriously
While the captain, Marvin and, as
found out later, Borup had been de-
layed by open leads we seemed to bear
a patent charm. and at no single lead
were we delayed more than a couple
of hours. Sometimes the ice was fast
and firm enough to carry us across;
sometimes a short detour. sometimes a
brief halt for the lead to close. some
times an improvised ferry ON an ice
cake, kept the trail without difficulty
down to the tenth outward march.
Igloos there disappeared completely,
and the entirs. region was unrecog-
nizable. Where on the outward jour
ney had been narrow cracks there
were now broad leads, one Of them over
five miles In width, caught over with
young ice.
- ~ re-
Here asain fortune favored US, and.
no pronoLIioea movement Of the ice
having taken place since the captain
passed. we had his trail to follow. We
picked up the old trail again nortI( of
the seventh igloos, followed it beyond
the fifth and ut the big lead lost 1t
finally
From here we followed the captains
trail, and OH April % our sledges pass
ed up the vertical edge of the glacier
fringe little west of Cape Columbia.
When the last sledge came I'D l
thought my Eskimos had gone crazy.
They yelled and called and danced
themselves helpless. AS Ootah sat
down on his sledge he remarked in Es-
kimo:
The Devil Asleen
1.-THE devil is asleep or having trou-
bic with his wife CT 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 at last our chance to sleep.
Never shall l forget that sleeps at
Cape Columbia. 1t wa-~,eep sleep.
then turn over and Sleep gain.
Two days we spent here in sleeping
and drying our clothes, then for the
ship
We reached Hecla in one march and
the Roosevelt in another When we
got to the Roosevelt | was staggered
by the news of the fatal mishap to
Marvin. He had been either less eau
tious or less fortunate than the rest
of us, and his death emphasized the
risk to which we had ell been subject
ed, for there was not one Of us but
had been in the sledge at some time
during the journey.
The rest can be quickly told. McMil
Ian and Borup had started for the
Greenland coast to deposit caches for
me. Before 1 arrived flying Eskimo
courier from me overlook them with
instructions that the caches were no
longer needed and that they were to
concentrate their energies on tidal OBJ
servations, etc, at Cape. Morris X.
Jesup and north from there
The RooseveIt's Cruise.
: These instructions We're carried out,
and after their return in the latter part
Of May Mcmillan made some further
tidal observations at other points. The
supplies remaining at the various
caches were brought in, and on July
Is the Roosevelt left her winter quar-
tiers and was driven out into the chan
mel pack Of Cape Union.
She fought her way south in the
center of the channel and passed Cape
Sabine on Aug. s, or thirty-nine days
earlier than in 1908 and thirty-twe
days earlier than the British expedi-
ton in 1876.
We picked up Whitney and his party
and the stores at Etah. We killed
seventy odd walrus for my Eskimos,
whom 1 landed at their homes. We
met the Jeanne off Saunders island and
took over her coal and cleared from
Cape York on Aug. %, one month
earlier than in 1906.
On Sept we arrived at Indian Har-
Dor, whence the message, Stars and
stripes nailed to north pole" was sent
vibrating southwark through the crisp
Labrador air.
Praise for His Men.
AS to the personnel, l have again
been particularly fortunate. Captain
Bartlett is just Bartlett-tireless, sleep
less, enthusiastic.
DIR. Goodsell, the surgeon of the ex-
petition, not only looked after Its
health and his own specially of micro
scopes, but took his full share of the
field work of the expedition as well
and was always ready for any work.
Professor Marvin and Mcmillan have
secured a mass of scientific data, and
their services were invaluable in every
way.
Borup not only made the record as
to the distance travelled during the
journey. but to his assistance and his
expert knowledge of photography Is
due what l believe to be the unequaled
series Of photographs taken by the ex-
petition. =
Hansen In the field and Percy as
steward were invaluable in their re-
spective lines. Chief Engineer Ward
-, .tao Of tho lost aypodifion aided