PEARY'S EXPEDITION.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12406, 23 November 1908, Page 1

PEARY'S EXPEDITION.

• — - — Tb-3 iiiosj reunte lopic of current ' interest at f-.e •nr--menti* probably . Commander I'oary's dash f'>r tbe r North Pole. The latest. report from 1 the American explorer ;is that the Rooseveltjeft Etab, West Greenland, on rtugust 18, b "und bortb, with the leader, tbraa ' white assistants, • twenty-five k'slnmas.and two hundred find fifty doss, besides the crew Commander I'eary hoped to push. iato ttie Polar .(.Van tnfora the winter, as the 13a urmdition's had' aevar bs^a msta favourable. and he proposal nei 1 ; February to mA ; ta a dash for the Pole, aided by his'E.-ik:-ini3. L'eary's list v ori to th 3 2le:v York reportsfs . wa'a that be expec.te.t t.i reach the. North P. l-» in Ibu spring of 1909. If be fails it v. ill nit bp iir fie want of trying. As l-.ng ago as 1836 he m-de his first royage into the ica. and it" was only two yeara ago t"iat ho returnoJ fr.im his last expadition, aftar leic^mg 87deg 6min n'rth latitu'le tbuty mil s . noarar the S'ola -than tUo Duke of Abmzzi's Fattiest Nor 1 !:. Commander Peary expaoU to ro.icb Grant Land this yonr b-.-fore to is frozen in. Here log buts will hi built, and tbe winter will ha sp =nt in preparation f>>r tho "tinal dii.^T" ' in tne sleighs, which will havo to be - ; 3o'mp3i;ent -to take Americans, iSskimo3,' and- dogs a distance of 810 miles. There -will ■be altogether - twenty-tive sleighs, each 0-n drs n by a team of six dogs. «nd acnom ■ panted by one Eskimo: and the vehicles will bo fo heavily loacledwi'b provisions and pthor impo'Umsata that Peary will, ifis aistci, b.-i satisfiiJ if he makes tnn mii-s a day on %ho our.warJ journey. On the road boui\ when -t.ho -weight of the provisions will hay* bean <-",n---siderably reduced, ho e^poots to m--tke liCKnan niilas n c!«y. fiu-.iilv, he declared just bafore starting tiifti, if he should rjaeta r.Da 1 ole iiuriii f r next winter tbe world s oulJ '•£«•.>■// of it b9twe3-.i A ! Jg-.ut a d Sept'ni'v - nest year. Uut in cjso these expai-.-titioas arc not r-a'.i?od it will be as well lo rrv.nnmhor thit tie has gone pro]n.':f'l To a tlire* years' sojourn in U.o Arctic. . .