Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20

time is Commander EedIy
belief. and DR.. Goodsell, physician OIL
the expedition, asserted the dry air
and constant sunlight of the summer
were a fine cure for tuberculosis.
The explorer spoke sadly of the loss
of Ross Marvin, who was drowned on
April IL. -
1--WE were in our Igloos," said he
when Kood Look Too and Inug Glun
Too, whom Percy, the steward hao
christened Harrigan,' came into camp
with their heads down. They shook
their heads and we knew that poor
Marvin had been lost. They said they
found the hole where he had fallen
through the thin ice and that they
could see the back of his fur coat above
the surface of the water"
Pole Again Can Be Reached
Commander Peary was asked if he
believed the pole could be reached
again and to what he ascribed his sue
cess.
'I believe" he said, that any mem
ber of my party could reach the pole
twice out of three times, just the same
as Capt. Bartlett could take the Roose-
welt through the ice foes to Cape Sher-
idan four out Of five times. You get
your training as you progress toward
the pole. 1 keep myself sound, clean
and straight, and this has been Of
great help in the trials of rigorous
climate.
"The expedition this time was par
ticularly fortunate in the absence of
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winds and east and west across our
course and to the fortunate prevailing
wind in our faces which held the ice to
the land.
Again we had the advantage of a
new type of sledge, without which we
would not have been able to make our
remarkable progress. This type of
sledge, the Morris K. Jessup sledge,
shows marked development. 1t reduces
the traction force on the dogs and also
reduces the strain on the driver. 1t is
no picnic in the arctic, just hard work
all the time. There is no riding on the
sledges but just pushing all the time.
Finds GreeIy's Supplies
Prof. Mcmillan, telling of finding
relics and stores of earlier expeditions,
said he came on some supplies at Fort
Conger which had been left there by
the Greely expedition in 1S81-1SS4.
There were coffee, tea, canned pota-
toes and rhubarb, and I tried them
ALL" he said. "It seemed strange to
think that seventeen out of that party
of twenty-five had died of starvation
after they had left the provisions be-
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ders and failed to find the relief ship
at Cape Sabine.
81 also found a trunk of Col. David
Brainard and scientific book belonging
to Lieut.. Frederick Kislingbury from
his son, Hardy Kislingbury. There
was also a temperature book in
scribed TO Lieut. Kislingbury from
his old friend and well wisher, George
w. Clarke, Detroit, Mich. There were
"a fa1a
l wore and a book in which George
w. Rice, photographer of the party,
had placed some plates. Nearby was
a sheet of paper on which were some
notes addressed to the chairman of
some banquet which had been held
by the party in the Arctic. There
were other relics such as watch
charms. musical instruments and
stick pins.
PoIaris House Found
Near Etah I came on the old po-
laris house in Thank God Harbor,
which had been used by the expedi-
tion of Commander Hall in 1871. l
found at latitude S1.44 a cuff on which
was written the name of Sir John
Lockwood While at Kuakan I walked
into an Eskimo hut and found the
E,sllimos eating off a plate on the
back of which was the name of the
ship Gjoa, which carried the Anund-
sen expedition of 1903-06.
Il gave the Eskimos cup for the
plate"
Prof. Mcmillan said that he came
upon the old headquarters of the ex-
pedition of Admiral Sir George Mares
near Cape Sheridan.
"Why was it you and the others did
not go to the pole with Commander
Peary instead Of Honson?" Mcmillan
was asked.
Because Henson was better fitted
he replied.
HE was stronger and had more eX-
perience, was a better sledge driver
and repairer and in every way was
tho man to go"