Peary's Expedition.

Manawatu Herald, 26 September 1895, Page 2

Peary's Expedition.

Lieutenant Peary and his com panions in th* Arctic expedition have returned to Newfoundland, nil well. Gruesoma accounts hava been received of the straits to which Lieutenant Peary and his party were put. The party were so far reduced that they had to eat their dogs, which are said to have been frozen standing, and the expedition was compelled to abandon further progress in the work of exploration. The scientific results of the expedition are fairly successful. Lieutenant Peary spent the winter in hunting and carrying stores to the edtff of thi» inland icecap of Green land. He steered northward from Bow doin in April, and reached Independence Bay ; bat- owing to the snow was unable to find a ton and a half of provision* which had been stored there in 1894. He was sh _>rt of food and medicine supplier, either for advance or return, whereupon the Esquimaux members of the party deserted. A herd of musk oxen averted starvation, and Lieutenant Peary was then compelled to return. He marched 100 miles per week, and leached 8000 feet above the sea level. The sufferings of the party were awful. Hugh Lee, Peary's assistant, became ill early in the journey, and had to be conveyed in a sledge. He subsisted on raw seal- flesh, walrus and reindeer. The strong dogs ate the weaker ones, and the members of the expedi turn killed the remainder. The party then dragged the sledges themselves, till they were compelled to abandon them, and before they reached the rescue steamer they subsisted on C"al oil. Lieutenant Peary's negro servant, Henson, was faithful to him to the last. The relief expedition secured a quantity of flora and fauna, also two of the finest meteorites in the world. — Press Association.