Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — FEATURES OF PEARY’S DASH. [ARTICLE]

FEATURES OF PEARY’S DASH.

Important Scientific Resnltw of the Recent Expedition. Later messages from Commander to President Jessup of the Peary arctic club, told how he had reached Hopedale, Labrador, and was having his steamer, the Roosevelt, repaired and ballasted. The return voyage from the farthest north

point ever reached by a human being had been one of incessant struggle with ice floes, storms and head winds. Two rudders, sternpost, two blades of the propeller, four topmasts, spanker boom and one boat had been carried away, and they had been obliged to use interior portions of the ship to keep the fires going after the coal supply was exhausted. Peary also announced his purpose to make another attempt to reach the pole after getting fresh supplies and making repairs. His dash was impeded by several tons of dog meat spoiling, and the loss of other supplies by breaking of ice. Mrs. Peary, who started with her son to meet the explorer, at Sydney or farther north, said no words could express her elation and happiness over the fact that her husband was “the hero of the most successful polar expedition in the history of the world.” One important scientific result of this expedition is the explosion of the theory of palaeocrystic sea. This theory arose from the observation of peculiar floe Ice in the ocean north of Grantland by the British expedition under Capt. Nares in 1876. Hence the name of this part of the Arctic oeonrf. which means a sea of ancient ice. It was thought that it was covered with an expanse of enormously thick ice anti that the sea was shallow, Mie <loes resting on the bottom. Peary found the floc ice thick, but not of the in i nt variety supposed by Nares. The Ice as a sledge route failed him utterly* as it broke up into big and little islands under an unusually mild winter. Peary and his party saved their lives by converting eight dogs into food. * f— Hi Ml I, I „ I,;