CAPE SALOR TO LOCKWOOD'S BEACON 



LOCKWOODS VOYAGE 



Every time we meet with memorials of those who fought 

 the same fight for progress as we do on this lonely coast, we 

 feel that unknown men greet us, reaching out a friendly hand 

 to comrades who continue their trails. 



Lockwood's beacon is situated on a large plain, stretching 

 in front of the high mountain ridge up towards Cape Mohn. 

 It is small and insignificant, no more than 1 metre high, 

 wherefore in no way does it attract attention. This explains 

 how it came to pass that both Peary and McMillan drove past 

 without noticing it. But we who examine every little irregu- 

 larity in the ground, in the constant hope of finding game, 

 discover it at a considerable distance. The report was deposited 

 in a tin which was in no way water-tight, but, notwithstanding 

 this, the writing was easily deciphered after the thirty-five years 

 of varied weather which had beaten round the open beacon. 

 With ancient Norse brevity the statement is made that 

 in May, 1882, two Americans, Lockwood and Brainard, 

 together with the Greenlander Frederik Kristiansen, passed 

 this place. 



Lockwood was a member of the Greely Expedition which 

 started from America in 1881, as a section of the great Inter- 

 national Meteorological Exploration which during that year 

 took place all the world over. The expedition, which had its 

 winter quarters in Lady Franklin Bay, approximately at Dis- 

 covery Harbour, was taken so far north by the steamer Proteus, 

 which immediately after the landing turned back again. Here 

 the house was built which later on became so famous under the 

 name of Fort Conger. In America the following arrange- 

 ments had been made for the maintenance of communication 

 with the scientists who were sent out : As early as 1882 a ship 

 would be sent up, but if this could not get into communication 

 with the winter quarters, a depot was to be laid down as far 

 north in Grinnell Land as possible. The following year a new 

 attempt would be made ; if also this were to fail, a relief party 

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