The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-12

work of diseharging the ship was com
meneed at once and rushed TO com
pletion. The supplies and equipment
We seldged across ice and sea and
deposited on shore.
house and workshop were built
of board, covered with sails and fit
ted with stoves, and the ship was
snug for winter in shoal water. where
she touched bottom at low tide. This
settlement on the stormy shores OF
the Arctic ocean was ehristened Hub,
bardville.
Winter Supplies Deposited.
Hunting parties were sent out on
September 10, and bear was brought
in on the 18th and some deer day
or two later.
On September. Is the full work of
transporting supplies to Cape Column
bia was inaugurated Marvin. with
DR. Goodsall and Borup and the Eski-
mos. took 10 sledge loads of supplies
10 Cape Belknap, aud on the eth the
same party started with loads TO Por-
ter bay.
The work of hunting and transport
ing supplies was prosecuted continu
ousiy by the members of the party
and the Eskimos until November 8.
when the supplies for the spring
sledge trip had been removed from
winter quarters and deposited at vari-
Gus places from Cape Colan to Cape
Columbia.
In the latter part of September the
movement of the ice subjected the
ship to a pressure which listed her
TO her port some or 10 degrees, and
she did not recover till the follow
ing spring.
On October I went on hunt with
two Eskimos across the field and Parr
bay and the peninsula. made the cir
cuiS of Clements Markham inlet and
returned to the ship In seven days
with Is musk oxen. bear and a deer, |
Later in October | repeated the trip. |
obtaining five musk oxen and hunting |
parties secured some forty deer.
Prof. Mcmillan went to Columbia 7,
In November and obtained month |
Of tidal observations, returning in De- |
eember, In the December moon |
Borup moved the Hecla depot to Cape /
Coian: Bartlett made a hunting trip /
overland to Lake Hazen, aud Hansen |
went TO Clements Markham inlet. In |
the January moon. Marvin crossed I
Robson channel and went to Cape
Bryant for tidal and meteorological
Bartlett crossed the
channel and made the circuit of New
nan bay, and explored the peninsula
sfrer he returned Goodsell went to
inlet and Borup toward
AXE Hazen, in the interior, ON hunt
ng trips.
Start ls Made in Snowstorm.
In the February moon Bartlett went
0 Cape Hecla, Goodseli moved some
more supplies from Hecla to Cane
'olan and Rorup went to Markham
Met on a hunting trip. On February
8 Bartlett left the Roosevelt with
lis division for Cape Columbia and
'arr bay, Goodsel, Borup, Mcmillan
md Hansen followed on successive
lays with their provisions. Marvin
eturued from Byran on February II
nd left for Cape Columbia February
j. | brought up the rear February 22.
The total OF all divisions leaving the
were seven members of the
arty, 50 Eskimos, $40 dogs and %
lodges. by February q such of the
ape Cofan depot as was needed had ,
cen brought up to Cape Columbia.
he dogs were rested and double ra-
oned and harnessed, and the sledges
nd other gear overhauled ~
Four months Of northerly winds dur
~ the fall and winter, instead OF
ones, as during the previous !
aason, led me TO expect less open | Z
ater than before, but great deal r
rough ice; and | was prepared to :
ew a road through the Jagged ice c
IT the first hundred miles or SO, and
len cross the big lead
On the last day of February. Bart :
tt, with his pioneer division, accom- ,
ished this, and his division got away a
ne north over the ice on March /. .
he remainder Of the party got away
I Bartlett's trail. and ] followed an :,
BUR later, The party now comprised b
members Of the expedition. II E.skl. r
os, 1873 dogs and 10 sedges One II
skimo and dogs had gone to pieces. ~
A strong easterly wind, drifting
low and temperature In the minus n,
arked our departure from the camp I
Cape Columbia, which | had chris h
ned Crane City, Rongh ice In the "
st march damaged several sIedges n
i'd smashed two beyond repair, the n
ans going back to Columbia for NJ
her sledges in reserve there. n,
We camped ten miles from Crane !
ty The easterly wiqd and low tenn d
nature continued. In the second r,
arch we passed the British record II
AIDE by Markham in May 1876 ID
2.20), and we were stopped by open il
alter, which had been formed by the w
Ind after Bartlett passed In this
arch We negotiated the lead and
ached Bartletf's thid camp Borup q
I'd gone back from here, but missed IN
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