330 NEAREST THE POLE 



E G. Wyckoff, Chas. P. Daly, Henry Parish, A. A. Raven, E. B. 

 Thomas, and others. 



R. E. Peary, 



Civil Engineer., U 5. N. 

 May 17th. 



Have returned to this point. Reached 83° 50' N. Lat. due north 

 of here. Stopped by extremely rough ice, intersected by water cracks. 

 Water sky to north. Am now going east along the coast. Fine weather. 



May 26th. 



Have again returned to this place. Reached point on East Coast 

 about N. Lat. 83°. Open water all along the coast a few miles off. 

 No land seen to north or east. Last seven days continuous fogs, wind, 

 and snow. Is now snowing, with strong westerly wind. Temperature 

 20° F. Ten musk-oxen killed east of here. Expect start for Conger 

 to-morrow. 



At Cape Washington, also, I placed a copy of Lock- 

 wood's record, from the cairn at Lockwood Island 

 with the following indorsement: 



This copy of the record left by Lieut. J. B. Lockwood and Sergt. (now 

 Colonel) D. L. Brainard, U. S. A.,in the cairn on Lockwood Island south- 

 west of here. May 16, 1882, is to-day placed by me in this cairn on the 

 farthest land seen by them, as a tribute to two brave men, one of whom gave 

 his life for his Arctic work. 



May 29th, 1900. 



For a few minutes on one of the marches the fog 

 lifted, giving us a magnificent panorama of the north 

 coast mountains. Very sombre and savage they looked , 

 towering white as marble with the newly fallen snow, 

 under their low, threatening canopy of lead-coloured 

 clouds. Two herds of musk-oxen were passed, one of 

 fifteen and one of eighteen, and two or three stragglers. 

 Four of these were shot fo^^ dog-food, and the skin of 

 one, killed within less than a mile of the extreme 

 northern point, has been brought back as a trophy for 

 the Club. 



