The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-10-14
P[ARYS CONQUEST.
Explorers Own Account
Of His Wonderful and Sue
cessfuI Dash to the Pole.
Co,yrfaht. 1909. by the New York Times
O'' Company.

N ATTLE HARBOR, Labrador
~ wL Marconi wireless, Cape
J Ray, y, F., Sept. o. The
steamer Roosevelt, bearing the
Iu-,. polar expedition Of the Peary Arc
rf-..uu. parted company with the Erik
a.t steamed out Of Etah Ford late in
I... afrrrnoon Of Aug. IS, 1908 setting
liz. u-ual course for Cape Sabine We
had .u board - Eskimo men, II wom-
oil and Iu children, 226 dogs and some
forty odd waIrus.
W.. -ncOuntered the ice a short dis
tgl.,- from the mouth of the harbOr
but II WAS not closely packed and was
NEGOTIATED by the Roosevelt without
serious difficulty. AS we neared Cape
Sabine The weather cleared somewhat,
and svr passed close by Three WORT
island and Cape Sabine. easily making
out With the naked eye the house at
Hayc, Harbor occupied by me in the
winter II 1912
From Cape Sabine north there was
50 much water that we thought of set
ting the lug sail before the southerly
wind hut a little later appearance of
ice 10 the nnrthward stopped this.
There was clean open water to Cape
Albert and from there scattered ice
H. = point about abreast of Victoria
head thick weather and dense ice
bringing us some ten or fifteen miles
away.
From here we drifted south some
what and then got Il slant to the
,.f
worked a little farther north and stop
ped again for some hours. Then we
again worked westward and north
ward till we reached Il series of lakes,
coming To Il stop Il few miles south
Of tie Wndward's winter quarters
at cape DurvilIe. From here, after
some delay we slowly worked way
uortlcs~tward through fog and broken
Zee If medium thickness through one
night and the forenoon of the next
DAY. only emerging into open water
and clear weather off Cape Fraser
FruIa This point we had IL clear run
through the middle of Robson chan
mel t. Lady Franklin Bay. Here we
encountered both ice and fog and were
forced across TO the Greenland coast
at Thank God Harbor.
The fog lifted there and enabled us
10 make out our whereabO bouts, and we
steamed north through n series of
leads past cape Lupton and thence
southwark toward Cape Union. \
y few miles off that cape we were stop
ped by inIpracticable ice, and we drift
ed back south to Cape Union, where
w stopped again.
Twice Forced Aground.
We lay for some time in q lake Of
water and then to prevent being drift
ed south again took refuge under the
north shore of Lincoln Bay
Twice "" were forced aground by
the heavy ice We had our port quar-
ter rail broken and hole stove in
the bulWarks. and twice we pushed
out In an attempt to get north, but we
were forced back each time to our
precarouS shelter
Finally on Sept 2 we squeezed
around cape Union and made fast in
a shallow niche i'll the ice, but after
some hours we made another short
run to Black Cape and hung on to
grounded bit of ice. At last, a lit
tie after midnight of Sept ), we pass
ed through extremely heavy running
Ice INT" stream Of open water. round
ed Cape Rawson and passed Cape
Sheridan
Within quarter of an hour of the
same tim" We arrived three years be-
lore a. ~. Sept. I've reached the
open water extending beyond Cape
Sheridan
We steamed up to the end Of it, and
happrarrd practicable at first to reach
Porter Bay, near Cape Joseph Henley,
which had for my winter quarters.
But the outlook being unsatisfactory,
Went back and put the Roosevelt in
I" Tile only opening in the foe, being
oaFFed close To the mouth of the Sheri-
Jan river. little north of our position
three Years prior
lie season was further advanced
Than in 1907. There was more snow
Oh thr ground. and the new ice inside
we Noe hrrSS was much thicker. The
"oFK of diScharging the ship was COM
"leiccd ut once and rushed to COM
Pt'Ioh The supplies and equipment
VIZ ScdEed across ice and sea and de-
r>I'td on shore. \ house and work
Nuop We're built OF boards, covered
WIN sails and fitted with stoves, and
TUE snip was snug for the winter in
S"oa' water. where she touched bot
"H at low tide This settlement on
Tue stormy shores of the Arctic ocean
was rhrlSt"ncd Hubbardvile.
Moving the Supplies.
Vn Sept IL the full work of trans
porting supplies to Cape Columbia
wis nau-urated Marvin, with DIR.
"o'uNeI and Rorup and the Eskimos,
"'A sixteen sledge loads of supplies
cape Bclknap. and on the 9th the
""r party started with loads to Por-
Ter Bay. The work of hunting and
transporting supplies was prosecuted
''A.iuuously by the members of the
Party and the ESkimos until Nov. s.
'A oct ! | went on a hunt with two
'>AImoS across the field and Parr Bay
-ud iii" peninsula, made the circuit of
tenants Markham inlet and returned
'He snip i'll seven days with fifteen
musk oxen. bear and deer.
Professor Mcmillan went to Co
""'"l' III November and obtained a
''u'A IF tidal observations. returning
~ december, In the December moon
UP moved the Hecla depot to Cape
''"". In the February moon Bartlett
N''' i" tape Hecla, G0Odsell moved
more supplies from Hecla to
Eo aaV Dion, and Borup went to Mark
,y S',, "''t on hunting trip. On Feb.
H., '''' ueit left the Roosevelt with his
Re-. Tor Cape Columbia and Parr
Ta. '''"dSell. Borup, Mcmillan and
w ,;,I'>eA followed on successive DAYS
~ q 'A"lr Provisions. Marvin return
~ w. from Eryants on Feb II and left
m , 1,,'e Columbia Feb. q. I brought
~ ~ ,ie rear Feb. -