Show ARCTIC JOURNEY new york sun lieutenant peary and his bis party wil sail eail from this city today for north greenland they are likely to reach whale sound rather earlier than most of the expeditions to those waters no obstacles have ever been encountered to prevent a well equipped vessel from reaching whale sound and with a fair fortune the party will probably arrive at the site of their winter quarters about the loth to the of july the greely party reached littleton island further north on august 2 only twenty six days from st johns baffin who was the first explorer in in this region arrived at smith sound earlier in the season than any of his successors except the rescuers of the greely expedition As an american is about duce a now new idea in north Greef greenland filand exploration it was perhaps particularly appropriate that whale sound bound was to be his base of operations it was discovered by baffin on july 4 during his memorable voyage of 1616 passing through this sound whose name was suggested to baffin by the many whales he be saw there lieutenant peary will probably erect the house in which he will spend the coming winter hit the deep indentation on the northern shore near the en entrance tiance to inglefield gulf this thib shore as shown on hayes chart is bordered by mountains and if peary is able to realize his bis hope he will climb one of these giant hills carrying his ledges and loads on the backs of his bis party and stop step from near its top to the surface of the great ice plateau which to is to be his high way to the far north it was in this wiy way that he reached the inner ice in south greenland thus avoiding the chasms and ragged ice that have used up several explorers explorer and sand destroyed their theire sledges ledges before the attained the ice plain almost within sight of whale sound are the waters where the pro was crushed in the pack and where kane and hayes battled inch by inch with the ice to gain some vantage g ground round for an advance to new discoveries peary will at least be spared this dangerous and trying phase of arctic effort the level joe ice plain not the treacherous tee ice packed sea is to be his bis highway it matters not mot how deep the snow for he is an experienced snow traveler and snowshoes are of the first importance in his enterprise 1 I regard this deep soft snow which stopped he writes I 1 not as a bete noir but as the perfection of roads in the little cabin which will shelter his bis party next winter about days of darkness or twilight will be spent their friends at home may think of them then with considerable confidence as passing the long winter night under fairly comfortable comfor tale conditions dit ions everything which past arctic experience suggests as contributing to comfort and safety has been included in the equipment the party will have plenty of fresh meat for game abounds along that coast and the hunters will lay in a supply in the ul foil only a little way further north haless sportsmen spert sport men in october shot seventy four reindeer twenty one foxes twelve hares bares and a seal besides a large number of geese and other aquatic birds peary has a most encouraging prospect for an abundant commissariat and the chances are that the long artio artic night will not be a cheerless and unhappy period with plenty of food clothing and books and abundant opportunities for exercise in a particular bracing atmosphere it will be surprising if these young and vigorous people do not hail the rising sun next spring in abundant health and spirits and eager to enter upon the arduous work before them that was the experience peri ence of the hayes party who passed the winter at port fort foulke under udder somewhat similar conditions the party will not be wholly cut off from their kind their winter house will be midway on that part of the coast which is inhabited by the arctic highlanders high landers we shall be glad to bear again of the simple harmless people who have shown many a kindness to explorers it is not unlikely that kanes party would have perished rith shed during the two winters in smith C sound if they bad not now and then obtained bear meat seal anil and walrus from the good natured natives seventy miles south of their ice im prisoner brig there are reasons to bileve believe that lieutenant peary will have opportunity to collect wore accurate and about these smith sound eskimos than our present arctic literature contains the main purpose of peares enterprise has already been well discussed while it is useless to speculate upon the chances of his bis being able to reach and map the extreme north coast of greenland using the inland ice as a highway it may be said that the idea he originated commended itself to many men whose oD opinions inions are entitled to respect the enthusiastic explorer himself does not underrate the arduous nature of his task even if greenland extends only a little way beyond lockwoode Lock woods furthest point peary has before him a round trip journey of about 1200 miles just as nansen naneen traveled now over a hard crust and then through deep soft snow peary atti at times is likely to find sledge haut ing very hard work general greely believes that the inland ico ice is not conterminous with the north coast of greenland and if this theory is correct pea peary ry will hardly be able to reach the north coast by the route he proposes for he and his comrades could not travel far overland packing their provisions on their backs at any rate if defeated in his main purpose he will perhaps be able to follow the edge east to the coast and completely determine the northern extension of the great ice cap of green and while peary peares a proposed attempt like arctic enterprises is experimental and problematical it is in certain that his scheme eliminates the gravest sources of danger and causes of defeat that have confronted all previous eppedi eions to north greenland whether or not his enterprise is completely successful it is believed he will return with additions to knowledge that will be welcomed by men of science and will repay his enthusiastic thusia and untiring labors his countrymen appreciate the high qualities that lieutenant peary brings to his great undertaking they will follow his enterprise with sympathetic interests aua will hope that this able and modest young man may win the laurels as ak an artic explorer which there is no doubt his efforts will merit whether fortune smiles on him or not after A fter the sleighing campaign is over L tenant en evi peary and his party will probably return to the south greenland settlements in their boats it to is a long and unpleasant journey but has been successfully accomplish ed by all who have undertaken it from kane to garlington |