Show f. f V t POLAR POLI-M REGIONS AS 5 THE EXPLORERS rOUND POUND THEM TI j t i WHAT DR COOK SAYS V AT THE TUE POLE What a cheerless spot to have bave aroused the ambition of ot otman I m man man n for for BO 0 many eat esl V V A An endless Held ed ld of ot snows snows snows' No Xo Ute life No Xe o land V No pot to relieve the monotony of frost W We were were the only I I pu pulsating sUng cr creatures 5 In 10 a dead dud world of t tV Ice V V VON ON OW TOE TilE WAY UP VP I t Beyond B Ond the sixth eighty parallel the ice lc ne Holds d became more mor extensive e t nI V and nd d h heavier the crevices c fewer and less tess t 4 tro troublesome ome w with b mUe 01 no crushed Ice thrown up as I t I barriers barrier From the to the eighty much to surprise was wu the Indication of ot land tanto leer 1 tV For Tor two days day w we travelled over over lc tea leo which resembled a glacial l surtA surface Tb The usual se sea Ice lines tines of ot 4 were ero absent and there were ere no hummocks or There was wa however no perceptible elevation and no positive ot land or sea eaV H V VAt I V At t laut latitude te 5 1 de dog 21 Si 1 We We were weM n now nr w leas lus than one Ofle onehundred V hundred bundred miles mile from the th 1 pole Dots Ot V The pack ack was wu hare hele hr ort active but the temp temperature rat r rI remained below 40 it together q quickly IC IT the new V 5 V VV VV V Further The North The Ice tee steadily Improved Improve V V I fair wether w good Ice and ans the Inspiration of ot of the thee horn dJ anoe r at first quickly covered the character caracter of b 5 v Below B tow lOw the e et seventh eighty parallel I much and ana It became evident that the tha I 4 tc tc Ic chan changed chanced very f season ason was w. advancing rapidly I u IW TACK I t Much of elt our bard hard work w. w was we lout lost In circuitous twists twist aroun around troublesome p pressure aure lines linn and high h. h Irregular fields nelds of very old I Ice 1 FF I V CURIOUs th the tho sun eun wa WalLOW low eye ran o er over the moving moTin turned The mirages colors colora to horizons ins of ot plain Inverted mountains and qu queer er objects thi ever er things M u TO topsy and fell ln shrouds of at my y ter but nil all this wa WM due dus to the atmospheric c oft oD oDthe the rut midnight sun lun D. D I uIn thu march I. I s. s over oyer and US hare land were pro pro- lOt musk oxon oxen seven leven bears beara Crown Prince Prine Gustav GuataY We found ours ourselves t fardown tn In a barrier small Ice 53 and impossible tea with open a r between between an and lI loerS' loerS island bland atO aS s life Ufe savers In the next few tew days ay hears bears CAme Cape was waa picked as a likely pac plc to find life I Game Gama was wag located d with the bow and arrow ano t the be line lne t the lance Unco and nd the knife Th Tb musk muk ox os' os bear beat and wolves waIn T yielded meat moat skins skin and fat fiS V I. t. t. t s f. f i f r 1 WHAT WHA T MR R. PEARY SAYS AT THE POLE It all Vail seems BO so V simple and commonplace As ki s Bartlett said when turning back It Is la Just like iilo ev every ry day t Five YIve miles mile from the pole pate all aU m my wire 1500 fathoms was rou sent down but there was we no bottom V VON VV I ON THE WAY UP VP I V Eighty eighth to ninth eighty parallel The go going In was U the best and most equable of ot any I had I ba had yot ot The non floes were were large and old ld hard ar nn and clear and were surrounded by pressure ridges some lome of ot which bloh were ere almost almo t stupendous The surface except as Interrupted by Infrequent quent ridges was waa as level levet as the glacial fringe e from Hecla to Columbia Columba and harder I ninth Eighty parallel to Polo Pole It uIt was like tho the tho great Int Interior Ice fee cap of ot Gr Greenland In twelve hours we mad made forty tort miles milts There was Wu no sign Ien of ot a ahead aind lead In Sn the march f j V JOURNEY V I V We woold try n to double march on the return Aa AaA a matter of ot t fact t. t wb wo nearly did this rem ru- ru Jarly on our homeward Journey five outward marches hea In three return marches V Just above bove the seventh parallel was waa a region some fifty hitty miles mUes wide e which caused me considerable able nesa nese Twelve hours of strung strong easterly westerly or northerly north north- erly wind would make this region an an open sea V VV V EASY GOING g Some of ot the pressure ridges v oro re almost stupendous Tho bl them however w r easily 11 negotiated either through creVIce or up some huge brink CURIOUS ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS For the first time since leaving t land landwe nd we Wo experienced that condition t fre iti it over these tee Ice Ic fields of ot a buy atmos- atmos phere pher In which the tho light Is Ii equal eve everywhere b e. e All relief 1 la is lade de destroyed and It la is Impossible to see IU any distance GAME GAIE PROCURED At winter quarters on shores bores of ot Arctic Ocean I Hunting were sent out on September 10 and a abear abear ar bear r was brought broucht In on the and some on deer eer a day or two lat lAter r. r On October 1 11 I went on a hunt with v. two Eskimos and returned to the ship in seven days day with fifteen arteen musk oxen a bear an and a de deer r. r Later ter in October I repented repeated the trip o obtaining Oe flye musk mUlk oxen oxen and hunting parties secured some como forty dr 1 f LL J J MAil J- J M J I |