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Greenland, Peary passed Lockwood's farthest north between three and 

 four weeks later. The coast was found to run north some ten miles 

 further to 83 39' N. latitude, where it turned abruptly to the east. 

 Striking across the great Polar Sea, Peary struggled on to 83 50' N., 

 where he was turned back by a considerable expanse of open water. 

 Before he returned to headquarters, however, useful work was accom- 

 plished along the North Greenland coast, which was surveyed as far 

 as Independence Bay, the point reached by Peary on his two great 

 journeys across the inland ice-cap in 1892 and 1895. The winter 

 months were spent partly at Fort Conger, partly at Meat Caches, 250 

 miles to the north. 



Another attempt to reach the Pole in the spring of 1901 had early 

 to be abandoned, as neither men nor dogs were in a fit condition to make 

 any prolonged march. Peary accordingly made his way south, and on 

 June 6 came across the Windward with Mrs. Peary and the explorer's 

 little daughter on board. The Windward had gone north in search 

 of Peary in the summer of 1900, and, failing to find him, had wintered 

 in Payer Harbor near Cape Sabine. Here, too, in 1901, came the Erik 

 in search of the Windward. Disappointment was naturally felt when 

 it was found that Peary has failed to reach the Pole, or even to attain 

 a higher northing than that of Nansen and Cagni in the Western 

 Hemisphere. The strain of so long a sojourn in the Arctic regions 

 had naturally been great upon a man of even Peary's iron physique and 

 dauntless courage, but the explorer determined to make one last effort 

 this year. Both the Windward and the Erik sailed south in August, 

 1901. So far as can be made out from the telegrams to hand, Com- 

 mander Peary has followed, as far as practicable, the plans which he 

 had laid down according to the information brought home by the Erik, 

 which left him on August 20, 1901, in his temporary camp on the south 

 side of Herschel Bay, on the west side of Smith Sound, about a dozen 

 miles southwest of his permanent quarters at Payer Harbor, near Cape 

 Sabine, about 78 45' 1ST. He was then stated to have been well provided 

 with all necessaries, although the difficulty of taking sufficient food for 

 the dogs was regarded as rather a serious one. It was also stated 

 that he intended to take with him a "marine equipment," so as to be 

 able to cross open water wherever it should occur. The telegrams to 

 hand do not refer to a boat as part of the equipment, but, as open leads 

 of water were met with, it is presumed that the expedition had some 

 means of crossing them. 



The move northwards began with the advance party of six sledges 

 in charge of Peary's faithful colored companion, Henson, on March 

 3, followed three days later by the main party with 18 sledges. These 

 parties, no doubt, traveled northwards along the ice foot on the Amer- 

 ican side, close to the shore, the distance to Fort Conger on the north 



