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Show HOW PEARY FOUND NORTH POLE Intrepid Explorer Tells About His Successful Dash to the Apex of the world open water, March 2 and 3; held up by open water, March 4 to 11; crossed the eighty-fourth parallel, March 11; encountered open lead, March 15; crossed eighty-fifth parallel, March 18; crossed eighty-sixth parallel, March 23; encountered open lead, March 23; passed Norwegian Record, March 23; passed Italian Record, March 24 ; encountered open lead, March 26; crossed eighty-seventh parallel, March 27; passed American Record, March 28; encountered open lead, March 28; held up by open water, wa-ter, March 29; crossed eighty-eighth parallel, April 3; crossed eighty-ninth parallel, April 4; north pole, April 6. All returning left north pole April 7, reached Cape Columbia April 23, arriving on board Roosevelt April 27. The Roosevelt left Cape Sheridan July 18; passed Cape Sabine August 8; left Cape York August 26; arrived at Indian Harbor with all members of expedition returning in good health except Prof. Ross G. Marvin, drowned April 10, when 45 miles north of Cape Columbia, returning from 86 degrees north latitude in command of the supporting party. ROBERT E. PEARY. IMPORTANT TO PUBLISHERS. The following preliminary account by Commander Peary of his successful voyage voy-age to the north pole was issued on September S by the New York Times Company at the request of Commander Peary and for his protection, as a book only, copyrighted and exposed for sale before any part of it was reproduced by any newspaper in the United States or Europe, in order to obtain the full protection pro-tection of the copyright laws. The reproduction repro-duction of this account, in any form, without permission, is forbidden. The penalties for violation of this form of copyright include imprisonment for any person aiding or abetting such violation. Copyright, 1909, by the New York Times Company. Report on the discovery of the north pole by Robert E. Peary, commander U. S. N., copyright, 1909, by Charles R. Miller, as vice-president of the New York Times Company. Battle Harbor, Labrador, via Wireless, Wire-less, Capt. Ray, N. F. As it may be impossible to get my full story through in time for to-morrow's paper, partly as a prelude which may stimulate interest ajid partly to forestall fore-stall possible leaks, I am sending you a brief summary of my voyage to the north pole, yhich is to be printed exactly ex-actly as written. Summary of north polar expedition of the Peary Arctic club: The steamer steam-er Roosevelt left New York on July 6, 1908; left Sydney on July 17; arrived at Cape York. Greenland, August 1; left Etah, Greenland, August 8; arrived ar-rived Cape Sheridan at Grant Land, hard to force the Roosevelt a good distance dis-tance to the west of Cape Sheridan, but the ice baffled him. For one reason rea-son or another on the edge of the arctic arc-tic winter last year he did not or could not take his vessel along the northern coast of Grant Land to the west of Cape Sheridan, and so it spent last winter not so far from its old berth in the ice in the winter of 1905-6. The sledge expedition left the Roosevelt Roose-velt on February 15, while it was still practicaly dark in that latitude. The sun scarcely begins to peer above the hills for a few minutes a day, even several hundred miles to the south of the coast where the Roosevelt Roose-velt was wintering. It comes into view a little later in that more northern north-ern latitude and the party made slow time to the west as it felt its way along. The northern Grant Land coast is likely to be exceedingly difficult to traverse, especially in the early spring on account of the masses of sea ice that have been pressed on the shore or broken into great blocks and stranded along the sea edge. It is no wonder that it took the party par-ty 15 days to travel westward as far as Cape Columbia. It is likely, however, how-ever, that Commander Peary succeeded, succeed-ed, before winter set in, in cacheing supplies to the westward so as to accelerate ac-celerate a little the westward movement move-ment of the sledge party before it struck out northward over the sea. Arriving at Cape Columbia on March 15 the sledges turned to the north on the' sea ice. The explorer had laid much stress upon the fact that he intended to travel much further to the west than on his trip in 1906. His dispatch dis-patch shows, however, that he did not take to the sea any farther to the west than he did on his earlier trip. Commander Peary says nothing in his report of being detained by pressure pres-sure ridges or hummocks, and it is certain that he met with no impediment impedi-ment of this sort such as made his attempt at-tempt to reach the pole in 1902 a continuous con-tinuous and terrible strugggle. A great obstacle and the one that undoubtedly prevented him from reaching the pole in 1906 was the wide water lanes or leads of water, some of them so long that he could not get around them. Peary's summary seems to show that he was a little over thirty-five days on the journey from the land to the north pole. In this time he was delayed about fourteen days by water leads, leaving a little more than three weeks for the actual sledging work. |