The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 9, 1892, Page 2

ue N AN ARUULC SAHARA. isfactory. |The three runners seemed to make Lieut. Peary’s Story of a Trip in tye sic lve more st \result proving very s: ly, preventing | Greenland. it from slatting aud seemed to very y ease the blows in passing The de over the sastrugi. lay inci Almost Impassable Eat Dog— nd of om Sledging Tirouch deut to the accident, how ened ou Snows—A Case of Dog Wild Panorama im the f Giovom—Glad Sights F the Bluifs of the Great and this wi ag fir: L the | of th e| march y decreasir se, left us on Glacier Basin. \to our credit, The ay the | New York, October 24.—On the |S80W Was even worse than before, last day of April, 1892, in maguiti |the sledges sank in it nearly to the | the snow upou of the cent bracing weather, the cliffs at |¢toss bs and this, together with} crevase and a luxuriant growth of the head of MeCormi bay, j the upgrade from the Humboldt|¢ frost crystals aud even cut as cameos, through the frosty | | Basi nimade the hauling go heavy The ten imiles detour to] air, Dr. Cook, Gibson, Astrup. |that after afew hours my dogs re | the eastward euabled us to flank all Kyoabpahdou, Talwnhuah, Kookoo | fused absolutely to work any more | the crevasses, and again I took up and I was obli and two Esquimaux boys, opportune arrivals of the night before, left Red | 2 . Cliffe, winter Cup Separation sledges and eight dogs the last of the inland ice supplies. | Three days later the time had come siles from fter making our camp, with two | dragging “poG EAT DCG. At this camp we commenced our regular sledge rations with a daily for me to start. This was the mo-|allowance of butter and Liebig ex- ment toward which the studies of| tract. At this camp, also, one of my six years had tended dogs, down with the dog disease, A hearty handshake and good-by to Verhoeff, who wished me the full was killed and fed to the others, dis proving conclusively the old saying est realizations of all my hopes, and | “that dog will not eat dog.” The I turned to say good-by to my faith |following day the continuance of ful natives, but not one in the set- tlement was to be seen. Having fin- ished helping Matt harness the dogs they had vanished into their huts. The Kapetausoak was going away never to return. Powerful as he was the spirits of the Sermiksoak, or Great Ice, were more powerful, and no mortal might dare their anger and be seen again by mortal eyes. They would not say good-by. Mrs. Peary was to accompany me to Mill Point, and we followed the sledge tracks in silence for some distance. After many, many vicissi- the up grade and the increasing depth of the snow compelled us to resort to double banking, and the end of the day found us bat three miles ahead of our last camp. Our- selves tired and our dogs out of sorts, Astrop and myselfate our din- ner in silence and were glad to lose ourselves in sleep. The morning found us refreshed and with a new if by hard work and no eyd of trou ble I could gain miles I should be satisfied. To my agreeable sur the next camp found us fifteer ten tudes we reached the camp, where I} miles further on our way. and thi had determined the supporting| without a mishap or hiteh though- party should leave us, 130 miles|out the march. We were now evi- from the shore of Bay McComick. I} dently at the top of the grade, and said that to many it would seem a slight descent dangerous, perhaps foolhardy,thing of the divide for two men to strike out into those Petermann could soon expect a on the northern toward the basin of side unknown regions dependant only|Fiord. The next day proved the upon their own resources and good |truth of these conclusions ‘Lhe health for a safe return, but for my-|snow surface became harder and | s-If I did not consider it dangerous or difficult, that, however, each man must decide for himself. harder, the aneroid and the sl+ both indicated a and after ges gradual descent, six hours marching we Dr. Cook was the first to speal,!eume upon a firm marble-like surface | but Gibson and Astrup were clos evidence of tmost violent behiud him. I then made my detail} wind forees and scored and carved as follow Astrup to go with mejuntil it looked like a great bed of and Gibson to return command | lava Pwo hours later land was | of the supporting party, and when j{ sighted to the northwest, and afte: he had reached Red Cliffe House tojanother two hours I called a halt | devote his entire time to obtaining ornithological plying the party with Cook, upon their Cliffe was to assume and remain in that capacity until my with a record of twenty miles for the day. On the last day of May we had! advanced but five miles, when, as uuto the specimens and sup- game. Dr. arrival at Red charge there We rose ecest hummock, the head of Petermann return from the inland ice. These|Fior with its guarding mountains details were acquiesced in by alland | and great basin of the glacier dis flashed into sight Here we were on the ice bluffs forming the limit of the} great glacier basin, just as we had j been at Humboldt, but a trifle te |} fortunate here than at Humboldt. I found it neces: detlect ten miles to the eastward to in a few moments all but one of the inmates of Camp Separation were sleepiug the sleep of the tired and | healthy. COMRADES SEPARATING. charging into it, below us :The next morning, early, the clash ing of sledges was undertaken and | soon accomplished, the loads care- fully restowed and secured, so that | the work which had hitherto been done by four and which would now devolve upon two might be as easy | as possible. Gibson and Dr. Cook | took their personal equipmeuts, with i: to avoid and the great crevices which cut the It had been down from ice bluffs encircling it. my good fortune to look inland ice ts of the ns of the three the ser into the feeds f greatest glaciers ia one of the lighter sledges, two dogs |® : the yon lala } aid vationeiiomtwelvaldnes- shen? jeobshavn, Tossuketah aud Great Kariak. It was with strange feel- gave Gibson an extra pass, one of my chronometers, a chart and care ful instructions as to making the land at McCormick's Bay, and we were ready to separate. Little was said as we quietly shook hands, and then Astrup and myself straightened our dogs and got under way, the Doctor aud Gibson looking after us. In alittle while we saw them in mo tion, andin a few minutes more the —. a — eation so favorable for observation I The next day I transferred all the made no attempt to advance further | dogs to the big sledge, putting the | but camped at once and began ob- | little one again in tow of the} servations for detemining positions other two. We had gone but a short} jand bearings of the land. distance, however, when the larger | jcamp we remained thirty-six hours | dog sledge, as a result of the severe | with a continuance of the most per blows it was getting when, traveling | fect weather, warm, clear and, what over the marble like sastrugi, broke | W#S most unusual, For two down, breaking all the — stand-| or three hours at midday my ther-| ards on one side. The wreck of 'mometer, in the sun. registered 77 this side was so complete that for a j degrees, and advantage was taken little while I was at loss what to do | 0! this to pee) dry and air all but finally the idea suggested itself °% cone ane OE any self to en- of lashing the remains of the sled !°Y theduxary of snow bath- alongside the other, making one on this view. myself of the feelings that the rag- ged, shining ice-field dropping away from my feet to the glistening ice- land and the dark mountains guard ing the distant shores might and leave me with only the uubrok en ice horizon of previous days. The weather being so clear vauish calm. | ADIEU TO PETERMANN BASIN. broad sled with three runners. ca Leaving Camp Petermaun and the jreets and off the lee shore on which | ro into camp | stock of courage, but still I felt that} ofa long | some |, the inequalities of the glacier basin | ings of uncertainty that Llooked up | I could hardly divest | caps stretching up iato Washington | aud our lo-} In this! man glacier basin I kept away due east, paralell witha series of gigan- tic crevas were covered with sr | drifts had faller | | ried repeatediy to g the walis of those c¢ in the ice of the gradual ¢ from the suar-j} s face snow to N d ther homogeneous i but rustations of | were thwarted by 1 Osborne as for- weathered Hum From Camp | the basin of Sheza j tunately as T had | boids and Petermann | Peterman the surface was compara tively level, and we had the highest summits of the Peterman Mount jin sight for forty miles. T the aneroid began to show a gradual s:ow became softer deeper, and I knew we were b. ning the ascent of the divide be tween th» Petermaan and Sherard Osborne basins. Still, we were able |to make fairly good progress, and halfa march and three full {brought us to the summit of the di vide. From the divide summit, as in every previous instance we found the traveling and with the wind b-hiud us we make uinteen and a half ty-one miles resp sctively ta two sae » marches, cam; rise, the oues very good, able to and twen- cess. g iu view of Sher: Osborne Fjord (as I at first supposed) on th: 8th of June. I Jhad sot expected to sight land again were ¢ ni, if the maps i should bive taken about two Inare:’s more to have bronght me withi: sight of Sherard Osborue, but I assuus:t that naturally the delineition of the inner portion of Sheard Osborne might be consider ably out of latitude, and that what Is before me must be Sheard | Osb rne. Future de oyments showed me that I was w: 1 that Si. Georgs Fjord penetrated jfarter iuland than had been sappos- ed, wid that this was whit lay be- | fore ine. | IN A FU. > st | ‘Tue latter part of the mareb of {June 8 had ben threatening weath- jer, the sky ove jland dark and isting | pec ligh: over the intar jwhich mid: iupossble to distia Jeuisiits relief. To knew, however jnot only from my aneroid bat from ins way the a1, that we were d- 1 diy, lieved tins. with the oeeurre: se eral prteies of bare blue ie- caused | aad fina!! completion of {me to hesitate, fon the ths twenty- |tirst mile, thoash we could easily j lave }more. aceynplishe Che exp-riences of the next | eautiousness, and that it would Lav terif I had had a pre | been mach bet Hmonition of trouble still earlier in| ithe day had hardly made ear Your din jonment, Astrup under the tarpaulin ia Jee of the sledge, myself in the} {little exeavation, half covered with ‘a sail, which we called our kiteh | For two days the wind howled above | tant land aud the blinding drifts snow hissed and whirled p | shelter. Whea the ‘and we crawled out we were right on the southern edge of the central trough of the glacier basiv. The descent to this consis'= | | ed almost entirely of blue ice, swept jelean by the furious wiud, and s | steep ;been unmauageable. The opposite | | side rose iu crevassed and steep sid-! | ed ice waves, loaded sledges. As far as the glass eoul-l reach across the glacier basin tothe northeast the crevasses and 'patches of blue ice continued; east and south steep icy s bat for- Des. s, rose abcre e was but tunately. free of crevice us. It was evideut th oue thing to do. viz: To climb those | clifs to the southeast. ng to ithe windward as it were, out of the devi a { an idea from my course northeast, hoping to clear | sj how, yealla halt} { four or five miles | | two weeks showed the wisdom of my | us down the slope toward the dis; storm ceased | of the drifts in | {which both ourselves and our sledges | were buried, I saw at a glance that | that our sledges would have unscalable for heavy-! idea was quickly carried cut, the | circling bluffs of the great Peter-| we found ourselves. FOG. IN AN ARCT tille sion I aid I soon another 50 to northeast. however, bs crevasses, y across | may cour d haye it, justas I re dense fog swept uy | the coast, lando it dangerous rectio tow was not ‘t 1 Then me t teen issanea cr crevass 'e2eded on ny course 5 itime Astrup ; th ssia which had caused Jus so mach troub‘e. the Bottomless | Pit, and had grown to hate the sight of the laud. Time up nind | in order to avoid further delay and anuoyaues thoi great | to strike still further | nto the iuterior so as to avoid them y Inu attempting to earry {out this plan, however, I found them jin lee ‘the surfue> from glacier basins, j co.npletel ia depth so rapidly,and of the inland at such a steep grade as I advaneed | Jiuto the interior, that I waver in and give up in favor of a more vortherly course. We had hardly made four this when the big strained weakenc: ice rising began to my decision finally | miles in direction once and sh work of the last eight days, broke down, and we sledze, T by the ro lost a day in repairing and relish ing ii an? restoring its load. The| first drop in temperature was eager ly seiz-d upon toady jwith Astrup and 1 and with the dogs at one sledge, we double jadvancing six and a quarter The followiag day the was ich better, but hal we straighen ed befove the laud, this time in rea! succeeded with banking in miles going j mu lity the shores of Sherard Osborne, Jrose into view ahead of us, and ones | jmore I found imyself compelled to| deflect first to the northeast and jthen to the east. Night found us Fwith If $ tand an | jot great glacier basin yet to be| {weathered a idea of the next day | ean pe best obtained from | mn extract from my journa’ Avother discouraging day within | shores of this | we on the! nore, for good, I hope, | jard Todso teust free from all obsta j feles. If there is aay truth in the | siperstition of the evil eye the coast | of this aadies surely have evil | black cliffs | Just as love as the | peer at us over the round of the| fice cap, just so long are we beset | with crevasses, slippery ice, hum j:uocks, howling wind storms, furious | drifts | possessed and fogs. The dogs seem with devils, the sledge | }and odometer brea’, some item or other of i lost, ay Ounce out of its sight, we! equipment is sure to be, and everything seems to go! find summer weather, jight winds, little drift—in a word, i and feomfoct. The intolerable t last night gave us uo chance to sleep comfortably, as it beat under and throngh every minute aperture of the tarpaulin, and melted as it fell on our faces aud clothing. On- «f my dogs, Castor, was dead Jame in (one leg and unable to pull, and the taugied and | frozeu into the drift at the hitching post | SEEKING traces were fearfully FOR SNOW BRIDGES. We had advauced when we found ourselves hemmed | iia by 2» series of huge concentric lerevices. The remainder of the day! } Was spent in reconnoiteriug for safe |snow bridges by which they could} be crossed. This could be joaly in a southeasterly direction, jaad night found us further south an we were in the morning. Once down in a | crevasse, and once the littie sledge, with a'l our biseuits and 100 pounds broke through, jectiug ledge of ice on doue wo of my dogs were of pemmics bat for : the ed porarily miysel and of the e aces which tem supported it ull Astrup and Old pal i have los out of danger, At nighta again boul t all. feeli of relief az the woods, as it being out Were, sent possible, to eep than usual, and hours of refreshing eion next page. me, if such a th de ig could even sound five and a hal [Coa | Always ae | but eght mil-s A NEW NOTICE. Bates county. Ne ud PRICES lower scounty. Wee DRY - GOODS, - CLOTHING, | HATS, CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES W Store, new than ever offered to arry a CLOARS. prices on Blankets, Comforts, and Mens Overcoats, ine of YARNS Respectfully, Don't fail to get our band. before purel We invite al avs on THE BOSTON STORE. FOSTER, MO. WP. eel oO . D. BENH Seduce idierbsiteheemeneesenigeeen elton Groceres, all Kinds. 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