Show FIRST REPORT FROM PEARY OF HIS TRAVELS IRA VELS IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS Failed to Reach Coveted North Pole but Made Most Important Scientific Scientific Discoveries in the North SYD SYDNEY EY N. N S 8 8 Sept IS Thc Te Thc Peary Pear Arctic club steamer Windward Capt Samuel W. W Bartlett arr arrived arrel el her hero this morning moring from Cape Sabine All Al on onboard onboard board aO are well veli wel Penn Peary said id The Arctic expedition did not reach the north pole but we made most Important scientific discoveries We e are all al tion well wel and glad slad to get back to Report of or His Ills Travels Peary sent to the thc club the following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing report of or th thc operations of ot the expedition since August 9 1901 Left Lett Let FrIck Harbor Harbol on the tIe Elmere coast August The party reached Payer Harbor September lih crossing cro Roose bay part partly b by sledge eledge and partly party by boat then walking acl across S Bedord Bedford Pim Pirn About Abut a w week l later m my Eskimos be began al to fall fal sick not not on one e escaping By November sick and one child were verc dead nearly all all the others athens were very ery weak but hut out of oC danger In February a f Jar large c deit of oC do dog food fod was established near Cape Louis Napolean some sixty mlles or Sa- Sa bine On March 3rd ard rd m advance my-advance vane party part of oC six sledges sledge in iii charge of oC Hensen left lef for Gansor i I Journey to tho the North April 1st started northward over o the Polar rolar sea with wih Hensen Heen four lour E Eskimos and six sledges After Arter six Ix marches open leads lines In motion were moton Two natives were sent back As s swe we ve advanced ad tho the floes foes become smaller a grander scale cale the pressure ridges eg on a and nd tho the open leads lead leads more frequent Each and our OUI days day's march was more mun perlou perilous general course coure deflected defected we west vest t by liy the character of ot the thc lee ice Finally I at noth latitude northwest of oC Hecla HecH the polar pack became beame Impracticable and further efforts to advance ad were given up New leads Ne leads and pressure ridges with wih foggy weather made made our return In some respects ogg more trying tring than the advance lie cia was af regained April Apri and Mn May rd ln I cm or Ma May th Capo Cape Cap Sabine was WAR reached on the thc My Mr proposed trip acro across Elesmere Elks Elk Eles- Eles mere land westward watt wan al prevented by open weather veather In Buchanan ba bayThe bayThe bay The ice broke up uli earlier than In 1901 and Payer harbor was blockaded al almost almost almost al- al most continuously Windward's Close Call The vad Windward bored her way through the Ice and entered the harbor harbor har hal bor br the thc morning of August and got ot out a again the tho same afternoon with scarcely fifteen minutes to spare before before before be be- fore the harbor was WS closed closet b by the ice Forcing our way across Smith mth sound my Eskimos with their belongings s were landed in U gulf suI Several days were devoted to hunting walrus and the thc Windward started southward reaching and leaving Cape York the afternoon of August Calling at u Greenland and Cape Haven t the e Windward Windward Windward Wind Wind- ward arrived ed at Chateau Chateau bay Labrador Labrador Labra Labra- dor September and sent sent dis dis- I patches The summer ummer voyage has been without mishap tind the Windward vard I with ih her ner engines has made as good and powerful time as as the larger more ships that have been going north the thelast thelast last ten years ear Ravages of ot Disease The year car at nt Payer ayr harbor v was as passed comfortably though an anxious strain caused b by the ravages of dla disease dl- dl dis ease a among 0 my faithful people was not l light ht Food Fod was WS abundant and our suph supply sup sup- ply lly of or ox musk-ox and deer deEt meat continued continued con con- throughout the thc year The northern north north- em ern rn sledge trip In the spring was arduous arduous arduous ous but not not ot marked by special exposure expos expos- sire ure suffering or danger more mor than Is necessarily arl- arl arlIn In Incidental to serious Arctic work ork Greely Grely Relics Recovered Equipment and personnel were wore satisfactory satisfactory sat sat- t and further nd advance was vetoed vetoed ve ye- toed by hy Insuperable natural conditions The Thc Windward has on board the In Instruments instruments In- In chronometers and Arctic li library Ii- Ii 1 brar abandoned by the Greel Greely llon and numerous specimens of or natural nat nat- ural history bear hear ox musk-ox reindeer and walrus skins The skeleton of ot a two horned narwhal narwhal narwhal nar nar- whal a n rare Arctic specimen n. n also liv lv ing specimens of oC m x k walrus Arctic Arctic Arctic Arc Arc- tic hare and Eskimo dogs are on board Whereabouts of Pram Fram rm The anchor and chain lost b by Frik last summer is on board The Fram left about August bound bund for home She has been In tn sound from front whence it It I Is understood explorations explorations lions were made to the northwest One mara death a n fireman freman is reported since Others on board hoard said Rid to he well wel The little schooner Not Me le- le leot ot which was wag caught In the Ice ce at pe Haven last latt year ear Is la now nov on or herway to St. St John This report signed by Peary is ad addres addressed addressed ad- ad dres dressed ll to Secretary H. H L. L Brigman of or orthe the Pear Peary Pcr Arctic club I Pear Peary will viii wi go co to New ew York tomorrow I and Newfoundland the Windward 1 for far the probably winter will wi go to |