PEARY AND THE POLE

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 617, 21 September 1909, Page 5

PEARY AND THE POLE

A PICNIC. DINED OFF CREELY'S PROVISIONS. FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS., (By Telecraph.-l'ross AMoctttloD.-OoDyrltßU (Rec. September2o,. 11.55. p.m.) Now York/September 20. Professor Donald M'Millan (formerly of Bowdoin College), geologist and zoologist 'with' Commander Peary's North Pole expedition, states that on the dash to the Polo they rediscovered Peary's camp used in his expeditions of 1900 and 1906, hi latitude 83. The tent'was still standing. , Professor M'Millan also found a camp of Lieut.' A.- W. Groely's expedition, in latitude 81. Peary's party dinod on potatoes, rhubarb, and tea, abandoned a ! quarter of a. century ago, and preserved by the Arctic temperature. ••■'.'.-

Mr. Geo'. Borup (of the Sheffield Scientific School), who did the photographing, of tho expedition,; states that the conditions in the Arctic were unusually favourable. The expedition was a picnic from beginning to end compared with previous expeditions. : _[Liout. A, W. Greely sailed from St. John's, Newfoundland, with 24 men, in the Proteus, on July 7,1681, and.on August 12,1881 i reached Discovery Harbour, latitude '81. degrees 44 minutes north, longitude U degrees 45 minutes west, where lie, established bis' Station', A detachment of his expedition, under Lockwood and Brainord, went to latitude 83 degrees 241 minutes north, longitude 10 degrees 461 minutes west, on May 15, 1882, a higher latitude than any before attained... Compelled by the failure of relief expeditions'to reach hira, : Greely began to "'retreat southward on August 9, 1883, and was rescued at Cape Sabine" by a relief , expedition, under Captain Winficld Schley, on June 22, 1884, after.having lost 18 of his men.] .. / PEARY SAILS FOR NOVA SCOTIA. (Rec. September 20, 11.40 p.m.) • New York, September 20. Commander Peary has sailed from Labrador, and is due to arrive at Sydney, Nova Scotia, on Wednesday'.