Show I BRINGS NEWS OF PEARY I Dr Br RanD Kann Arrives In Scotland From Far North 4 EXPLORERS IN DISPUTE DISPUTES DI Pur E S ii AND AND PEARY CLASH CLAS OVER TERRITORY TER I I 1 I Edinburgh Nov 10 Dr Leopold Leopold 1 Kann is the only member of his party I of Arctic scientific explorers e who ar arrived arrived i rived at Dundee yesterday on the i iwler whaler Eclipse from Strait Dr ot K th the States geological cal survey decided at the eleventh hour not to come te to Scotland Sc but Hut to await the first opportunity of being land 1 the American side Samuel Wan of Boston preferred to remain at v Sabine for a time In an interview today Dr Kann gave some interesting details regarding the Peary Penny and Sverdrup Svendrup expeditions Lieutenant Pennys party he said passed the winter at Etah Elah on Smith Sound near the spot where here Dr Hays had his winter quarters in 1896 and not far from the scene of the Greely disaster In February end and nd March of this year Fort Magnesia our winter house at Bedford on Pym pID Island was thrice vis visited visIted by b the members of his expedition On the first occasion Mr Hansens party came on the second a a party un under under under der Dr Diderich and later Lieutenant Peary himself in command of a sledging sledgIng ing lug party part I Explorers Have Rave a Dispute He that about ten tea months previously he had bad met Sverdrup in the Kane Basin north of Smiths Sound From conversation I elicited that some feeling had been be n engendered between Lieutenant Peary Penny and Sverdrup the former rather resenting what he be con considered considered considered th the intrusion into ground which for exploring purposes the American was inclined to regard as his own party had d thoroughly ex explored explored explored the Ellesmere Hinterland map mapping mapping mapping ping out a region that t was hitherto h a blank on the charts Many of Ser flags were s seen en n by us When the Peary Penny and aad Sverdrup par parties parties parties ties separated S understood intention was to explore the vast area of land and aDd water in and aDd around Jones Tones Sound beyond Cape Eden I believe Sverdrup on the Fram is now winter wintering wintering wintering ing in Jones Tones Sound and my m opinion which is backed by that of the Dundee whalers is that it will be impossible for the Fram to come home this year The autumn has been very tempestuous Otis ous and the ice was as such as to render navigation next to impossible Lieutenant Peary had dogs and sledges but having un underrated underrated the difficulties orthe journey and not having a sufficiency sU of food most of his dogs gs d died He kept only a R few fe natives Datives at Fort Port Conger during the summer season and the rest of the F with Lieutenant Peary re no returned returned turned to the settlement in a few days no so that the journey was as extremely ar arduous arduous arduous and the party part suffered great hardships I am certain that thai Lieutenant Peary is te now wintering at Fort Conger r When I left Cape York on the Eclipse June 9 Do the Windward was waa expected to touch there about the middle of July Jub where orders from Lieutenant L Peary Penny which I had brought were left with ith the Esqui maux Dr Steyn SteYR and myself discovered a melancholy record of the Sverdrup ex expedition expedition near ear Fort Magnesia in the grave of Dr with the in inscription Died June t I which h was nearly two months before Defore the arrival of our party |