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relics of the Royal Navy deposited, through the Lords 

 of the Admiralty in the Royal Naval Museum, at 

 Greenwich. 



The Club sent the Windward, repaired and improved 

 and in command of Captain Samuel W. Bartlett, North 

 in the following year, 1900, with Mrs. Peary and Marie 

 Ahnighito Peary on board, leaving Sydney, C. B., on 

 July 2ist, with instructions to proceed to Etah, and 

 failing to find there Commander Peary, to cross Smith 

 Sound to Cape Sabine and press forw^ard as far as might 

 be necessary to open communication with him. The 

 Windward failing to return, the Club in 1901 chartered 

 the Erik, and despatched her in command of Secretary 

 Bridgman from Sydney, C. B., July i8th, with instruc- 

 tions to proceed first to Etah, and then to act as circum- 

 stances suggested. The Erik arrived at Etah on August 

 5th, where Commander Peary and the Windward were 

 found, all on board well, the ship having wintered in 

 Payer Harbour under Cape Sabine, where she was joined 

 on May 6th, by Commander Peary from Fort Conger. 

 The Erik and Windward, after the greater part of 

 August in the north waters, returned, the former to 

 Sydney, C. B., September 15th, with Commander 

 Peary's report of his delineation in 1900 of the 

 northern end of Greenland, and Lockwood and Brain- 

 ard's original record from their cairn in 1882 at their 

 farthest, and the Windward to Brigus, September 24th. 



New boilers and engines having been installed in the 

 Windward, she sailed a third time for the North from 

 Sydney, C. B., July 20th, 1902, with Mrs. and Miss Peary 

 on board; effected a junction with Commander Peary 

 on August 5th at Cape Sabine; and, after a stay of less 



