AN ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
PEAKS FOR SAFETY OF PEARY'S PARTY. Keoeived July 10, 8.30 a.m. NEW YORK, July 18. Grave feara are felt here regarding Commander Peary's Arctic expedition. No news of it has been received for many months. The fears are intensified by the knowledge that the weather in the Arctic regions has been exceptionally severe. (Lieutenant Peary started on his expedition on July 12t»3, 1905, in the Roosevelt, a specially constructed vessel provided wit:.: armature to force its through ice. With Peary are 70 hardy young sailors from Maine. It was hjs intention to force the vessel as'far north as possible along the shores of Grant Land, at the southern extremity of the northern Polar Sea, and then from this land base make sledge journeys across the great Polar Paok. tie carries two years' supplies, and before leaving declared that his vessel was strong enough to force herself successfully through tbe opposing ice floes and over dittluulties where others have failed).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8188, 20 July 1906, Page 5
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167AN ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8188, 20 July 1906, Page 5
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