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Show TO PEARY'S RELIEF. The Steamer Miranda Will Sail Today or Tomorrow. Nkw Yokk, June 27. The preparations are almost completed for the sailing of the steamer Miranda, which, in a few hours, will embark for St. Johns, Newfoundland, with the Peary relief expedition on board. At the latter place the party will take the steam whaler Kite, the ship that carried Peary and his sturdy companions, a little more than a year ago, to the ice-bound regions re-gions of Greenland. The relief party is sent out by the same organization that euuipped the P-ary expedition, the " Philadelphia academy of Sciences, aud is under un-der the command of Prof. Angelo Reilprin. Some fear is entertained that the Peary party may have met the same fate that overtook over-took the Greely dxpedition at Cape Sabine. Lieut. Peary is an engineer in the United States navy, and had conducted au expedition expedi-tion into the polar regions previous to the present one. This gave him a desire to pursue his explorations farther, and he therefore applied to the academy of sciences, an organization which has always been liberal in its patronage of scientific expeditions. expedi-tions. His immediate purpose to reach Mc-Cormick Mc-Cormick bay, about four hundred miles from the northernmost Esquimaux settlement, and to make this point las base of supplies. On the u-ajfeuipiJIftiJiTJcame eu- 1801, and a detached piece of ice struck the rudder with such force that it threw the iron tiller over against the wheel house, striking Peary, who was standing near, a territic blow and fraeturing his leg in two places. On July 27 the party was lauded at Mc-Cormick Mc-Cormick bay, and three days after the Kite sailed for home, leaving the party in excellent excel-lent spirits aud Peary on the high road to recovery. The party included, besides Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Peary and his wife, Dr. Cook of Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, Professor Astrop. a Norwegian scientist, John M. Verhoef and Matthew Hensen. The station is in a wild and inaccessible inac-cessible region, but the relief party will be provisioned for eighteen months, and so even if blocked in the ice during the coming com-ing winter they will be in no danger of starvation. star-vation. it is possible that tho explorers will not be found at the place where they were left a year ago, as they may either be pursuing their explorations in the far north, or, in case any misfortune has befallen them, and despairing of relief from the outside, they may by This time br wending their way southward to the Esquimaux settlements. In the latter case, however, they would be likely to pursue their journey along the coast and would, therefore, be sighted by the Kit--, which will follow the shore as closely as possible. It is calculated that the relief party will rea.-h St. John's in time to embark on the i I2th . f July. |
