446 FIELD WORK OF THE PEARY ARCTIC CLUB, 1898-1902. 



AVithin a mile of our next camp a herd of 15 musk oxen la}^ fast 

 asleep; I left them undisturbed. From here on, for three marches, we 

 reeled off splendid distances over good going-, in blinding sunshine, 

 and in the face of a wind from the east which burned our faces like a 

 sirocco. 



The first march took us to a magnificent cape (Cape Bridgman), 

 at which the northern face of the land trends away to the southeast. 

 This cape is in the same latitude as Cape Washington. The next two 

 carried us down the east coast to the eighty -third parallel. In the 

 first of these we crossed the mouth of a large fjord penetrating for a 

 long distance in a southwesterly (true) direction. On the next, in a 

 fleeting glimpse through the fog, I saw a magnificent mountain of 

 peculiar contour which 1 recognized as the peak seen by me in 1895 

 from the summit of the interior ice cap south of Independence Bay, 

 rising proudly above the land to the north. This mountain was then 

 named by me Mount AVistar. Finally, the density of the fog compelled 

 a halt on the extremity of a low point, composed entirely of fine glacial 

 drift, and which I judged to be a small island in the mouth of a large 

 fjord. 



From my camp of the previous night I had observed this island (?) 

 and beyond and over it. a massive block of a mountain, forming the 

 opposite cape of a large intervening fjord, and be3^ond that again 

 another distant cape. Open water was clearh^ visible a few miles off 

 the coast, while, not far out, dark water clouds reached a'way to the 

 southeast. 



At this camp I remained two nights and a day, waiting for the fog 

 to lift. Then, as there seemed to be no indications of its doing so, 

 and my provisions were exhausted, I started on my return journey at 

 3.30 a. m. on the 22d of May, after erecting a cairn, in which I depos- 

 ited the following record: 



Copy of Record in Cairn at Clarence "Wyckoff Island. 



Arrived here at 10.30 p. m. iMay 20, from Etah via Fort Conger and north end of 

 Greenland. Left Etah INIarch 4. Left Conger April 15. Arrived north end of 

 Greenland May 13. Reached point on sea ice latitude 83° 50^ north May 16. 



On arrival here had rations for one more march southward. Two days dense fog 

 have held me here. Am now starting back. 



With me are my man, Mathew Henson; Ahnginalokto, an Eskimo; 16 dogs, and 

 3 sledges. 



This journey has been made under the auspices of, and with the funds furnished 

 by, the Peary Arctic Club of New York City. 



The memVjership of this club comprises Morris K. Jesup, Henry W. Cannon, 



Herbert L. Bridgman, John H. Flagler, E. C. Benedict, James J. Hill, H. H. Bene- 



, diet, Fredk. E. Hyde, E. W. Bliss, H. H. Sands, J. M. Constable, C. F. Wyckoff, 



E. G. W^'ckoff, Chas. P. Daly, Henry Parish, A. A. Raven, G. B. Schley, E. B. 



Thomas, and others. 



(Signed) R. E. Peary, 



Civil Engineer, U. S. N. 



