The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-20


rs~My own special sIedge, which was
remed the Morris X. Jesup, was
driven BY E-gingwah. In the center OF
the sledge, carefully cushioned on
spare clothing to protect 1t from in
Jury or shocks of any kind, was my
instrument box. This, box contained
,sextant, an artificial horizon glass
roof, mercury, spare compasses, spare
Thermometers, reading glass, photo-
graphic negatives, and our scant sup
ply of medicines. In canvas pockets on
the upstanders at the Fear end of tho
sledge were my camera, my aluminium
binoculars, my notebooks and pencils,
and minimum self-registering thcr-
mometers. These were In a sheath of
sheepskin with the fur inside, to les
sen the shocks of rough travelling NV
notebooks were carried in little
water proof bag of light rubber cloth.
lThe little travellers theodolite, IN its
case on cushioned bottom, was in
closed in very light csnvas bag,
the mouth of which could be closed
tightly with drawstrings to keep out
the driving snow. This rested upon
a spare pair of kamiks, or skin boots,
at the rear end of the sledge lust in
front of the upstanders where the pos
sible injury from jars was reduced to-
a minimum"
OF his arrival at the goal, Peary
tells simply, yet dramatically.
About ten o'clock in the forenoon
of April 6th," he says, II called a
halt l had now made my five marches
and estimated that we were in the
immediate neighborhood of our goal;
and at local noon, on the Columbia
meridian. l made my first observation
at our Polar camp, named the Morris
X. Jesup camp, which indicated our
position as 80 degrees and 81 minutes"
Overcome with weariness, he sue
Icumbed to sleep within sight Of the
Pole. Continuing his narrative. he
says:
when 1 arose few hours later, I
wrote in my diary:
1.-The Pole at last. The prize of
three centuries. My dream and goal
for twenty years. Mine at last ]
cannot bring myself to realize it. 1t
seems so simple and commonplace
ut seemed strange to me, even then,
when everything was too strange to
be realized that in march of a
few hours l had passed from the
Western to the Eastern Hemisphere,
and had verified my position on the
summit of the world.
1T seems hard to realize that on
the first Mills of this brief march,
had been going north, and on the last
Though still going ahead in the same
direction. 1 was travelling south; thai
in order to return to my camp, | mus
turn and go north again, and thcr
still keeping on in a straight line, e
south.
Going back along the trail. l trieC
to realize my position; tried to rcalz
that, from every point of the horizon
the circle of which was in both hemi
spheres, the spirits of those who's
bones lay around the Arctic Circl
were looking at me; that east, west
and north had disappeared for me
iand that every direction was south
that every breeze which could bloy
upon me, no matter from what poin
of the horizon, was south wind
THAT day and night were year
and that hundred days were cen
tury; that two steps only separates
me from astronomical noon or IRON
Astronomical midnight; that had
stood there during the six month
Arctic winter night instead of durin
the six months summer day, I woul
have seen every star In the northern
celestial hemisphere circling the SIX
at the same distance from the horizo
with Polaris practically in the zenit
Overhead.
In the current installment of hi
story, Peary gives Tiis scientific obser
vations and describes the method o
taking them in a manner intelligibl
, to Law men