Nearest the Pole: a narrative of the polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)
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Nearest the Pole: a narrative of the polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)
Arctic regions
Early in the morning of the 22d, we reached the second igloo out from
Cape Hecla, and camped in a driving snowstorm. At this igloo we were
storm-bound during the 27th and 28th, getting away on the 29th in the
densest fog, and bent on butting our way in a “bee” line compass course,
for the land. Floundering through the deep snow and ice, saved from
unpleasant falls only by the forewarning of the dogs, we reached Crozier
Island after a long and weary march. The band of young ice along the
shore had disappeared, crushed up into confused ridges and mounds of
irregular blocks.
The floe at the island camp had split in two, the crack passing through
our igloo, the halves of which stared at each other across the chasm.
This march finished two of my dogs, and three or four more were
apparently on their last legs. We did not know how tired we were until
we reached the island. The warm foggy weather and the last march
together dropped our physical barometer several degrees.
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HEAD OF RANGIFER PEARYI, ALLEN. Killed near Cape Joseph Henry, _October,
1905_
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ESKIMOS OF THE “FARTHEST NORTH” PARTY
As we now had light sledges, I risked the short cut across the base of
Fielden Peninsula and camped that night under the lee of View Point.
Four more marches carried us to Conger, where we remained three days,
drying clothing and repairing sledges, and giving the dogs a much needed
rest. Leaving Conger on the 6th of May, eleven marches brought us back
to Payer Harbour on the 17th of May. A few days after this I went north
to complete the survey of the inner portions of Dobbin Bay, being absent
from headquarters some ten days. Open water vetoing a trip which I had
planned for June up Buchanan Bay and across to the west coast of
Ellesmere Land, the remainder of the time was devoted to assiduous
hunting, in order to secure a supply of meat for the winter, in the
contingency of no ship arriving.
On the 5th of August the new _Windward_, sent north by the Club, and
bringing to me Mrs. Peary and my little girl, steamed into the harbour.
As soon as people and supplies could be hurried aboard her, she steamed
across the Sound to the Greenland side. Here my faithful Eskimos were
landed, and, after devoting a week or so to the work of securing
sufficient walrus to carry them in comfort through the winter, the
_Windward_ steamed southward, and, after an uneventful voyage, arrived
at Sydney, C. B., on the 17th of September, where I had the pleasure of
meeting Secretary Bridgman, of the Club, and forwarding through him a
brief report of my movements during the past year.
A NEW CARIBOU FROM ELLESMERE LAND[4]
BY J. A. ALLEN
Footnote 4:
_Bulletin_ Am. Museum of Nat. History, Vol. xvi, Article xxxii.
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