Show A sew now arctic quest new york tribune lieutenant peares expedition to northern greenland ia is ingeniously planned and promises to enlarge the worlds st stock tock of knowledge respecting re the polar basin he ile makes whale sound at the entrance of smith strait his base of operations for a sledging journey inland over the ice cap to the northernmost point of greenland reached by lockwood and brain ardin ard in 1882 landing in prudhoe land early in july he expects to build winter quarters lay in in a supply of provisions and fresh meat and establish an advance depot near the humbolt glacier with his seven associates he will pass the winter in fitting up sledges and travelling tra travel velling equipment and in snowshoe and 9 skier ier practice As soon as the spring opens five men will start with the sledges and n after passing humboldt GI glacier aci e will push on to he the head of fjord a little south of capt halls winter quarters at polaris bay and on the opposite side of the channel from greelis Gre elys station at discovery bay here the party will divide aft after er stocking a second depot of supplies 1 s three of the tile five will return to whale sound while the others advance toward lockwood island in latitude 83 degrees 21 24 minutes halting at at therard osborne Oa borne and da do long lords fjords to leave portions of their applies supplies for use in the return marc march in this way lieutenant peary expects to reach the norths north limit of greenland next year and to establish the fact that it is an island the chief advantage of this plan of northern campaigning is the ahoi avoidance wane e 0 of the chances of opan open water the progress of lockwood in his second sledge journey was blocked at caps cape bryam bryant by the open sea where a year before there was a solid mass of floe ice B by y going ing through the interior of of arem greenland land over the icecap ice cap peary will escape the risk of detention by exceptional conditions of theesen ice the distance to be traveled from headquarters will be much greater since a long circuit will have to be made before the humboldt glacier can be passed and Pelen Peteri nann fjord reached but a ecart can be made earlier in the year than lock woods departure from discover discovery bay and the party will have a superior e equipment in the norwegian sno snowshoed snows hoea and skier peary has had bad personal experience in the interior of greenland U d i ia 3 an expedition made from disko bay and with such pra practice 1 atice as he be can obtain during the winter he be may reasonably hope to acquire extraordinary facility in the use of the travelling tra velling snow sticks if no unforeseen accidents occur he will have every consideration in favor of his making the highest latitude ever reached by man and in tracing the northern trend of the coast to its furthest limit such expeditions as this are to be commended as far more practical than the norwegian project of fol lowing in the track of the jeannette from wrangell ll island and drifting with the ice toward the pole and into the north atlantic lieutenant peary requires only the assistance of a whaler to carry him to whale bound sound and then he has an overland journey before him with the simplest and best equipment for making it with a small party the risks of arctic travel are reduced to the lowest point and the largest scientific results are promised the winter quarters are to be opened where game is abundant and where there is no chance of the repetition of the hor bors of starvation camp at cape sabine the dangerous passage of smith sound and kennedy channel is avoided altogether whale sound can be readily reached under all known conditions of the ice in baffin bay and it is abase a base from which in an emergency a retreat can be made to upernavik the operation cooperation co ion of professor Heil prins scientific explorers has also been secured for the first season and everything is apparently arranged most favorably for promoting the success of this new arctic quest |