THE NORTH POL

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4461, 11 September 1909, Page 1

THE NORTH POL

A LETTERIROM PEARY

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; V. ,#QGS.. g| New. Ypnx, September 9. The New Yoidt .'Times publishes letter which Peary wrot: in May. 1901 lvTC(»id y himself “at Etah/ whfchhas'been as depot 'foY years, appropriated ft Eskimos I grained, end faken th dogs 'ready far mjr own fug/’' ■ The lettcsr. cojicludes, action m goingjnotfkt-Midrrosu for M admittt j ose of forestalling me I one wbiqb np man Jraesesiung sense c honour of.” |

MESSAGE FROM I PEARY, >

SUMMARY OF THE STORY

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Xfw' YhrW ' * fianf omhftv* Q Perry, Tador, by, wisrt e«s. mi Newfoundland sends v the ' New::, Yof > fcl Timesi tlk following summety in case heiatfnahlt to get the full story in time for tO-dtty ? i issue :—' '* After ‘wintering; at Cape vShetidar, Grand Land. arefedge* expedivion leii the Roosevelt on FebiTiaiy lfithi act startf d north of Cape’Gdhimlia oi March Ist. They paSSe.d. Britis} rccord pn tne£ns.' delays by open water until jtbp/ldth*/ wher they crossed the ,84th j sm encountered open lead Oh Ifokh 15th Crossed the 1 85th paraHel fcftfhe 18 I aid tKe'B 6th on the .Encou:n< tercel open Isnd aud pak''t|i4he: Nor. wegian. repori on the. 2si& .and th Italian record on the?4th;..iEocouri tered open' lead bn the; 26tkj passer the ü ß7th' jJaraliai on aic American reediid on‘the 28t f h> ’ T open water on fhe 2sth, crossed the 88th parallel on April ,2ncM9th\:on the 4th, aJjd reached; tno North' Pole bn the 6tbv? vEfeff reached Oap£ Coluiilbiaon'thO l 23rdjftrrivipg .ahogrd the-Rcosevelt on the 27th. v The Roosevelt reached Cape Sheridan -Passed Cape; Sabine pH '~AUgust ; Bth, and Cape York on the 26th.; - % . All the expedition; wti'jl good health except Professor,kfaivin who was drowned on ; April/10th, 45 miles north of Cape Columbia while returning from the 87th 'degree in command of the supporting party.