Putnam patriot., 1909-09-17
ExpIorer's Own Account of His Wonderful and Snc. eessiuI Dash 10 the Pole.
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 a4r NnseEeH De ring tae tertb lie1t. eerfa itiun of he pesry Arc rIe club. lz 4 soalaAf Wlit he t.slk and sfaaHItG out 9f E. Il Fpll i8ie 10 the affelsoau if AHG IS iys. setting ihe Bsaal eanrse fqF cape Sabine. Me had na iir7lrd z5 tstimg uen v w0ln- eH and 11 eflI3. |. 2zaf asgs aud some forty easl walfns
 We encountered The ice q short GIs. tance rom tle mouth af the harbor, buf il sas not closely packed and WIS negotiated by 5hc Roosevelt without serious difficulty As We nenred Cape Sabine The weather eleared sefnew wfat. and we passed close by Three No0rt izlaud and Cape sAbine easily making oei ailb fhe naked eye ihe hotise at Hayes ilarbur occupied by me in the winter of l.1i-2
 From Cape Sabine north there was se much water that we thought ot set. ting ihe Ing sail before the southerly wind but little later appearance of Ice io ihe h,rthward stopped this There wis clean open water to Cape Albert and from there scattered ice l. point about abreast of Victoria head. thick weather and dense iee bringing ns some ten or fifteen miles away
 From here We driftrd south some what and Then aot q slant te the narthwald out of tll" current. We worked little further north and stop bed agair fur some hours. Then we agnin worked westward aud north. ward HI we reached Il series of lakes. coming te a #iap Il few miles south of the Ninawards winter quarters at Cape I1ursille From here. nfter soIne delny. We slowly worked WHY nertheastward through fag aud broken lee df medium tliekheE through one nighi md inc forenoon If she next day uuly emerging into open wnter and clear. weather off cape Fraser From tiils pnint Mf had Il clear run through be middle of iiobesup ehHn nei fD Lady Franklin Iiny Here we encountered both ice and fog and were ferred across ia the Greenland coast al Thank s,nd IIarbof.
 The fog lifled there and enabled IL ? ia make out anf whefeabentst and w steamed north through il series of lends past Gape Ldpton and theues soaihwald toward Cape Union. \ few miles an tliai cape we were stop ped by lmpraelieahle Iee. and VI drift ed haek south te eape tniot. where we Nepped again.
 Twice Forced Aground.
 We la for sofne time ifi hike of water and then to prevent hehg drift so south again took refuge under the north share af Lincoln sax
 Twice We w.c fbreed aground hy the Asnss lee Nc had our port qual fer fnii broken and Il hole stove in the hailmafks and twice wi pushed out in m attempt to gel north, but We wnre forced back each tibic to out preeaflens shelter.
 Finally on Sept We squeezed around eanr tusan aud made tAst tn a shallow niche in tue lee hni after some hours We mi,le unother short run to fAlrk eftne and hang uh te st grounded tIl ef ise II last. Il iii tlo after midnight pf sept | we nnag e,I lhes ash esfremrly hcH9x running Ice iatn a siriaA ef epen Wnter rai4ud .sl Caie RaNsen and fassed eAHr Sherilnu
 Within quarter of m hour of thr snns ilmc Age arrivet thrce years he fore : q ms Sept j. We resY hed tho apen water extending heSeud tape Sheridan
 we steamed up to lhe end of t. and t appeared praetieahle ag htst h fearlt Porter EaN. urar ,ape ] 0soph Henley which | hud for plk wieter quarters Bnt ihe eHiteek helg unsmtisfaVtorF went hack ahl put the Roosevelt In to the only otealae In slie aoe. heins harrod clafe la l9la laoaih af lhe shefi dan river utiie north of our position fhree Ncars .tler.
 The seas'Tu was further advanced than in todA There Mas mor,s saow on the ground and the new t,e inside fhe ios. horss WIS mieh thicker The work ef aiSeharginw lhe hin WAS com metessi ai eu q aud rushed Ia com pies ipn The applies ana equlneenl we skslgesl ross iee and sea Hnd de pasiied an sharp \ haiiSe and work shop were built ef baanls. covered win sails and fitted With Stotss. and inc ship was snas for ihe wiafcr h sil9al water. where she touched hot tom at low tida This settlement an the siarmy sheres If the Arctic ocean was chrlStentd Hubbard, file
 Moving the Supplies,
 On Sepi l. the ftsll work ef tans porting supplies tN Cape coinmhia waSs inangurated Marvin with pr. GoodseIl and Rnrnp nna the kssialesy took sixteen Sisdse loads pf supali.'s fa Cape Belknap. and on the .,1th the same party started wilh loads ta For ter Bay. The work af hunting and transporting supplies was prosecuted continuously hN the members ot the party and the Eskimas until Nas. !.
 On oet. I l went ep . hunt with two Eskines across The feld and rarr Ray usq the renIaSula. made the circuit of Clemanls Mark ham Inlet and returned to the ship In seven days with fifteen musk oxen. hear and deer.
 Professor MeMislan went io Go Mulhla lu November and obtained | month saf iidai observations, returning in Daeemhcr h the ilecemher noon Rorup uaoved fhe Heeia depot to Cape colan. in The February meon Bartlett went to eape fleela. Goedssil moved vaiue more supplies from tiss'la te Cane calan. and narnp Went ta Nark