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Show PEARY'S TRIP. His Plana for Discovering; tho North Pol Ixtnjc Entertalne.d Philabelphia, Nov. 22. When Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Peary returned to St J ohns, Newfoundland, Newfound-land, after his recent successful journey to tue most nonnern point yet re acne a Dy man on the east coast of Greenland, ho was overheard over-heard by the steward of the Kite, the vessel which had carried him to Greenland and which brought him back thence, to ask the owner of the ship upon what terms he could engage her for next summer. He also made j special investigation into her carrying ca-! pacity, and when they arrived in thia eity j her crew gave out freely their opinion that j Lieutenant Peary contrmplated another voyage voy-age to the Arctic seas. About two weeks ago he submitted in writing to General Wister, president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, and to 'the other officers of the institution, insti-tution, the following proposition: If the academy would obtain from the secretary of the navy a tjiree years' leave of absence for Lieutenant Peary, to be employed in an effort to discover the north pole, the academy acad-emy should have tha credit of starting the enterprise. No money nor supplies nor men to fit out expeditions were to be demanded of the academy; nothing but the weight of the name of the institution. Peary would do all himself. Nothing definite is known about the details de-tails of Lieutenant Peary's plans for reaching reach-ing the pole, but it ia probably that he will go by the way of Greenland, and make a journey with sledges across the frozen sea north of that island. |