Return of Arctic Explorers.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1895, Page 2

Return of Arctic Explorers.

[United Press Association.] London, September 23. Gruesome aaoaunts have been retrieved of the straits to which Lieut. Peary ana pirty were put. The party were ao far reduced that after eating dogs, which are said to hftva been frozen standing, they were compelled to abandon the expedition. The proper soientifio results 'of the expedition are fairly sucoessful. Lieut. Paory spent the winter in hunting and earrylng stores to the edge of the inland iceoapa of Green-, land. He steered northward from Booodoin in April, and reached. Independence gay,

but was nimble to find the ton and a-half of provisions stored there in .1894, owing to Bnow. He was short of food and medicines, and therefore had to advance or retnrn, whereupon the Esquimaux descried, a herd of mnsk oxen, and averted starvation. He marched 100 miles per week, and reached 8000 feet above sea level. The sufferings of the party were awful. Lee early became ill, and was conveyed in a sledge. He subBisted on raw seal flesh, walrus, and a number of the strong dogs ate tha weaker ones, and the members of the expedition killed the remainder. The party then dragged tbe sledges themselves till they were compelled to abandon them before they reaohed the rescue steamer. Kite subsisted on coal 1 oil. Peary's negro servant, Henson, was faithful to him to the last. The relief expedition Beoured a quantity of flora and fauna, also two oi the finest meteorites in the world.