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the Saviksue for iron, their wants being met by whalers and by 
trading with the natives farther south. 
In 1895, Peary returned to Melville Bay and took his ship to 
Saviksoah Island to obtain the masses of iron. The Woman and 
a smaller meteorite, known as the Dog, from its size and shape, 
were successfully loaded on board the ship “ Kite” after much 
difficult and exciting work, an incident of which was the break- 
ing-up of the cake of ice on which the Woman had been ferried 
from shore to ship, just as the mass was about to be hoisted 
aboard. Fortunately, there was enough tackle around the iron 
to prevent the loss of the- object which had been so long and 
eagerly sought. Without further incident, the two masses of 
iron were transported to New York and deposited at the Museum. 
The great mass, called by the Eskimo “‘ Ahnighito”’ or the Tent, 
was visited by Commander Peary on this trip, but with the 
means at hand nothing could be accomplished toward moving 
the iron from the ledge on which it had rested for ages. 
The following year, the indefatigable explorer made another 
voyage to the inhospitable shores of Melville Bay to bring Ah- 
nighito away. Again was the project unsuccessful, by reason of 
inadequate apparatus and inclement weather. Once more, in 
1897, Peary returned to the attack, this time with a one-hundred- 
ton and two thirty-ton jacks and ample supplies of railroad iron 
and great timbers, determined to win at all hazards. To trans- 
port a compact, rounded mass of iron of great weight down a 
rocky slope several hundred yards to the sea and to store it 
safely, with no dock or dock machinery, in the hold of a ship for 
a journey of three thousand miles would be difficult under any 
circumstances, but the problem of moving Ahnighito was vastly 
complicated by the ice, the fog, the winds and the other adverse 
conditions of the west coast of Greenland at latitude 76° N., and 
the task may well be compared with that which faced Lieutenant 
Gorringe in removing the obelisk from Egypt to Central Park. 
The ship ‘‘Hope,”’ built expressly for Arctic exploration, was 
moored directly to a rocky promontory, where she lay at the 
mercy of any storm that might come up, while the last days of 
the anxious work were progressing. As the monster meteorite 
came aboard ship, the four-year-old daughter of Commander 
