| Show VIEWS ON HE FHE ARCTIC park city utah oct 31 1897 in frank G carpenters chat with wit general A W greely as pub published b you he never speaks about any xo g af weather I 1 know that general nv have had a hard time of it for when saw him and six of his party after thaw had been picked up from the aratt shores I 1 did not think they would HT five days they looked like they wei we too far gone I 1 was out in that country eight a half years and just as get ge greely says woolen clothing is the and with a good fur coat and plenty eat you can get along you can sh a all the summer and get a good au hupf in for the winter we shot dua du and gathered eggs on an is near cape york and for deer you take your gun any time in the sum su and shoot five or six As tor for salt sal we put our net in the water and in minutes we could not pull it in had to send to our ship for help got 1950 salmon and there were many more that jumped out ut T are all knots of game in that cou I 1 sailed with one of the best wha wh capt captains aills that ever had command ftp ship in the polar regions C cap william adams of the steamer A i with over thirty four years of e expert ence I 1 have been just as far norths nansen has in 1884 we got just IL al to the top of smith sound that thai the time when the north pole have been found we could have right up the sound but our coal getting short and we were loaded heavy we had fifteen whale board twenty seven bears whales sixty five sea horses wl whales I 1 have had just as weather out in davill as I 1 1 had in utah you will find good bad everywhere I 1 have been seventeen and a years at sea and never a better 1 in my life than when out in the J regions my first voyage was ln in J then I 1 stayed at home four years yeam went back again with a car walker of the steamer erik of ofa he had over forty years experience in the arctic regions speaking about nansen you were good man I 1 was in company he Is a with him out in greenland in 1881 he steamer viking at the seal in the was fishing but he did not go the right way get half way up smith after you sound always see that you get on to flow and if you cant get land the the land for it just as general that take greely I 1 says you may think you north and all the time you are going are going andree south the next time you for As him will be when our noble from hear his remains lieutenant peary finds is to the the man who going is that he is taking the right road and pole white and tour four men the th right way I 1 will that is plenty four esq 1 imos two a and nd a half years when give elve hirn him back to his native land and he h S will be tell you all about it I 1 think to be able me lieutenant peary were going to start if of june dunehe he would get the about to smith sound and make right up f better time found some very fine gold ore I 1 have country it will be just as good in camp that klondike I 1 know where we a cilip coal as and there is a gold field a half miles from E ak two wo and not know much about ore did abere re I 1 out in that country but by was as when I 1 next year I 1 will know what it time going out with lieuten ft like for or I 1 am abit peary truly I 1 remain yours y JOH N g B FERGUSON |
