DHE CAPE VORK METHORITES 5 
Peary, herself born near Cape York, broke a bottle of wine over 
the mass and christened it ‘“ Ahnighito,’”’ her own musical name. 
With the great mass secured within the hatchcombings, the 
prow of the “ Hope”’ was turned away from Saviksoah Bay and 
full steam was crowded on to escape from the dangerous place, 
where the rapid forming of new ice, presaging winter, threatened 
the adventurous white men with long imprisonment. Great 
anxiety was felt by the intrepid Peary and his men while the 
ship was forcing her way out of Melville Bay, for it was several 
days before the great mass of iron could be lowered to the bed 
of stone ballast provided for 1t deep in the hold and be secured 
where it could not overturn the vessel or break through her sides 
during a storm. 
ETCHED SURFACE OF AHNIGHITO, SHOWING WIDMANSTATTEN LINES 
From the autumn of 1897, when the ‘“‘ Hope’’ discharged her 
valuable load at the Cob Dock of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 
Ahnighito lay there in comparative obscurity until last Septem- 
ber when the great mass was once more set in motion. Lifted 
by a great crane which makes child’s play of handling a mogul 
locomotive, the meteorite was transferred to a lighter and towed 
around to the foot of Fiftieth Street, North River, where a mas- 
sive iron truck, capable of carrying a roo-ton load, was in wait- 
ing for the last stage of the journey. Twenty-eight powerful 
horses, forming a line the length of an avenue block, were re- 
quired to pull the truck and its load through the streets. On 
October 1, the great meteorite arrived at the Museum and ended 
its travels. Here it rests on a six-foot cube of solid concrete 
and rubble. The dimensions of the iron are, length 10 feet 10 
inches, height 7 feet 2 inches, thickness 5 feet 6 inches. 
In order to determine the exact nature of these great masses 
of iron, chemical analyses of all three have been made and slices 
