ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5138, 24 September 1895, Page 2

ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

A GRUESOME STORY. Received, September 23, 10 p.m. London, September 23, Gruesome accounts havo been received of the straits to which Liout. Peary and his party were put. Tho party were so far reducod that they bad to eat their dogs, which are said to have beenfrozon standing, and the expedition was compelled to abandon further progress in tho work of exploration, The scientific results of the expedition are fairly successful. Received September 24, 1,50 a.m.

London, September 23, Lieut. Peary spent tho winter in hunting and carrying stores to the edge of tho inland ice-cap of Greenland. He steered northward for Bowdoin in April, andreachedlndependenceßay; but owing to the snow was unable to find a ton and a-half of provisions which had been stored there in 1894. He was short of food and medioine supplies, either for advance or return, whereupon the Esquimaux members of the party deserted, A herd of musk oxen averted starvation, and Lieut. Peary was then compelled to return. He inarched 100 miles per week, and reachod 800 feetabove 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-fish, wairus and reindeer. The strong dogs ate tho weaker ones, and the members of the expedition killed tho remainder. The party then dragged the sledges themselves, till they had to abandon them, and before they reached the rescue steamer they subsisted on colza oil. Lieut. Peary's negro seryant, Honson, 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. [Lieut, Peary's expedition left New York in July, 1893. The object was to survey the north-east coast of Greenland, and outline and deter--1 mine the size of the masses of land to the north of the mainland, and also to search for open water around the Pole.] ATHLETICS AND SMOKING, Should athletes smoke? Opinions are considerably at variance on the'subject, but tho verdict of moat modem scientists would lead to the conclusion (hat youth, while training, should abstain from smoking pipes, cigarettes, and strong tobacco. A mild cigar on the other hand may indulged in, and tho lastest novelty, i'rossard's Cavours, cau be recomiiondedtoone and all. They are mild, fragrant, and in every respect suitable for the successful sportsman, as well for the one who is out of it. A packet of eight oosb only one shilling and three-ponoe.Athletos go for them and be victorious. -Abvt.