nrinum boats ashore. They were now obliged 

 to take shelter in a great dog kennel until they 

 were able to build a house from the wreckage. 

 Through a hole which had been made in the 



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CAPT. ROBERT E. PEARY. 



side of the wrecked vessel the party were enabled 

 to save a quantity of coal and other articles. 

 An express party was sent after Mr. Wellman 

 and overtook him at Marlen's Islands. Messrs. 

 Wellman, Dodge, and others returned to Walden 

 island and held a council. Capt. Bottolfsen, 

 Webfeldt, and a sailor volunteered to seek for 

 sealing vessels southward. Mr. Wellman re- 

 sumed his journey northward on May 31, but 

 Bottolfsen and his party were unable to start on 

 their trip on account of pack ice, and were also 

 detained on the island until June 3, when Sando. 

 Ivoson, Winship, and Heyendahl returned from 

 Mr. Wellman, owing to lack of provisions and to 

 troubles in regard to ice and water, with orders 

 and mails from Wellman, who had gone forward. 

 On June 27 Capt. Bottolfsen and his party 

 started southward in search of sealers, hauling 

 behind them a 22-foot aluminum boat. They 

 passed four terrible weeks of storm and heavy 

 snow, sometimes hauling their boat, and sailing 

 or rowing where there was an open water. In 

 this way they traveled 230 miles along the Spits- 

 bergen Islands. They were compelled to throw 

 away nearly all their extra clothing and much 

 of their equipment, as the boat was overloaded. 

 Their passage across Henlopen strait was partic- 

 ularly difficult and dangerous. All the party 

 were wet to the skin, and their sufferings were 

 most severe. In a hut at Mosset Bay they found 

 and repaired an old gig. On July 13 they tried 

 to cross Wijdo bay, but were obliged to return, 

 owing to fog and ice. They made another 

 start on the 15th, but the ice proved too dense, 

 and they were obliged to abandon the gig and 

 proceed, hauling the aluminum boat. Seven 

 Norwegian sailors were seen east of the Norse 

 island, but they failed to respond to signals. 



At Morse Bay they found Nordenski'old's hut, 

 where a provision depot was maintained by a 

 Tromsoe skipper. The party had to take their 

 boat around Welcome point. On July 29 they 

 were taken aboard the steamer '' Malygen," Capt. 

 Pederson. 



Capt. Bottolfsen says that during the journey 

 along the coast his party were able to shoot a 

 few polar bears and reindeer. The dogs he had 

 with him proved useless, becoming sore-footed, 

 and had to be shot. 



The remaining members of the party reached 

 Tromsoe Aug. 17. The aluminum boats, though 

 subjected to the hardest usage in the pack ice, 

 came through uninjured. 



The Jackson-Harmsworth expedition seems 

 also to have failed of results. It left Archangel 

 Aug. 5, by the " Windward," having a complete 

 equipment, including several ponies, a copper 

 and an aluminum boat with others, 17 sledges, 

 24 pairs of ski tents, furs, 3 trebly walled 

 houses, partly of wood and partly air-tight can- 

 vas and lined with felt, a Russian log house, 

 and a stable made on the circus plan. Many 

 of the scientific instruments taken were of 

 aluminum. About the middle of August the 

 " Windward " was seen by Norwegian fishermen 

 trying to make its way through masses of ice 

 in the vicinity of 78 N. ; at the end of August it 

 was seen s'teering northward in a channel be- 

 tween soft masses of ice, at 75 45' N. and 44 

 El The ship had not returned in October. It 

 was to have come back after the landing and 

 building of winter quarters. 



All but 3 members of the Peary party left 

 Falcon Harbor Aug. 26. Peary, with Lee and 

 Hanson as volunteers, remain at the headquarters 

 at Falcon Harbor to complete their explorations 



MRS. PEARY. 



next season. Most of the expedition last fall 

 and winter was devoted to preparations for the 

 inland ice journey to Independence Bay, which 

 began on March "6, with a party of 8 men, 12 



