The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-02-29
Backed by Natural History
Museum Endorsed by
Peary and Others. .
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

available about Croker Land thew
will start the return sledge journey of
approximately 500 miles to their head
quarters on the Bache peninsula in
May, 1913.
The return journey, it is planned,
will be made with more leisure than
attempted while outward bound. The
route through Ellesmere, Axel Hell
berg and Grant Land will be careful
ly mapped, and collections of marine
animals will be made.
May Be Heard From In a Year.
The first chance of the world at
large to hear from the two men after
their isolation in Grant Land should
be late in the summer of 1913, a full
year after their departure. They plan
TO dispatch a messenger to North Star
bay promptly upon their return from
Grant Land, this messenger to carry
Tor transportation by a Danish steam
ship back to civilization a full report
OF the expeditions progress up to that
point.
The summer of 1913 and the winter
and spring Of 1914 will still be ahead
OF the explorers in the arctic, and this
period they propose to utilize first by
transferring aboard their power boat
their headquarters from the Bache
peninsula down to Etah.
At Etah early in the spring of 1914
Borup and Macmillan will organize a
sledge party composed of Eskimos Of
the neighborhood for the purpose Of
proceeding directly eastward to the
summit Of the ice cap on Greenland
at the widest part Of that island,
which is the second object of their
trip. They have an engagement to
keep at Etah with a steamship that
will be sent north especially to re-
ceive them in the autumn of 1914.
Roosevelt's Endorsement.
The letter Of Endorsement from Colo
mel Roosevelt, in which he sets forth
the pride he would feel as an Ameri-
can in having his fellow countrymen
reach Croker Land first, was written
to President Osborn of the American
Museum of Natural History.
Il have learned with great interest"
Colonel Roosevelt wrote, "of the expe-
dition to the north polar regions with a
view Of reaching Crocker Land, which
Admiral Peary reports actually seeing,
and of discovering the vast unknown
area which, according to tidal experts,
must exist in the arctic sea.
1.-THE scientific work that is mapped
out IN geology, geography, biology, me-
teorology. oceanography, magnetism.
glaciology, etc., is, of course, of prime
All our people are the
debtors of Admiral Peary for the fact
that he added a signal triumph to the
sum of achievement of American men
Of action. Messrs. Borup and MacMil-
Ian possess the very qualities which
enabled Peary to do such work, and
their success should be matter of con-
Germ to all their countrymen. They are
scientific men of the best out of doors
type, scientific men who are equally
good in the laboratory and in the field
and at the same time able to take the
lead in hazardous ventures. They pro-
pose now to attempt the most daring
and hazardous feat of geographical ex-
ploration, and should think that every
man able to appreciate and to admire
1aring and proWess when shown in a
fine cause would feel his blood stir
when thinking Of what they intend to
do.
1T would be fine thing for America
If the discovery of Croker Land could
be placed to our credit as nation
Peary Approves the Plan.
From Admiral Peary letter Of in
1orsement came, in which he pointed
out that the two young men who pro-
pose to undertake the exploration are
Known to the Eskimos personally and
Are above the average in physical
strength and power of endurance.
"They have had the experience he
said, ''of my last expedition to train
hem in the methods and equipment
which have been found SO satisfactory
n the north"