WHAT PEARY'S PARTY FOUND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 256, 4 December 1909, Page 4

WHAT PEARY'S PARTY FOUND.

An interesting account of the discovery of relics of former polar expeditions by Professor Macmiilan and other companions ot Commander Peary, while the latter was journeying to the Pole, has been sent to the Mew lork Times by its correspondent, wiio returned o~i lUth September to Sydney Irorn liattle Harbor in the steamer Tynan. i/ne camps used by Coau.audei Italy at I'JOO and lOoij were discovered practically intact ill the Arctic ice by Professor Macmiilan in latitude 83.3 U. The tent, though in rags, was still standing, aid it was reoccupied by the party. Even footprints were easily distinguishable, is ear Fort Conger, in Lady Franklin Bay, in latitude 81.44, they found the camp of the Gieely expedition, and the party dined on potatoes, homily, rhuba>b, pemmican, and tea abandoned there a quarter of a century ago. Professor Macmiilan says that they were still good. The professor found observations within the shelter made by one of the memberti of the Greely expedition who perished. He described finding the hymn book of Lieuteqsnt Kislingbury, who was lost with sixteen companions. The flyleaf bore the inscription: "To dear Father, from your affectionate sou. May God be with you and return you safely to us." Beside this lay programmes of trotting races held in 1581 and the notes of a speech evidently made at a dinner given by the party during the Arctic night. The remains of the ill-fated-Polari's expedition ot 1870 were discovered at the camp ol Thank God Harbor, Smith Sound; and the Eskimo settlement at Cape Sheridan the ship in which Amundsen navigated the North-west Passage. Cartridges left in the timber camp by Hie British expedition of Sir George Nares at tape Sheridan in 187(i were still good alter thirty-three years. A despatch Iron Mr. Borup, the official photographer, testifies to the unusually favorable conditions in the Arctic regions last year. He says: ''This has been a picnic from beginning to end compared with previous expeditions. It might be said that we travelled in Pullman cars, thanks to Commander Peary's thorough working out of the Arctic problem/'