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Tue North Greenland Expedition of 1895, the primary object 
of which was to bring back Lieutenant Peary and his companions 
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start had been planned for the first of the month, and the unfor- 
tunate delay made it necessary to omit the considerable stops 
which were to have been made in South Greenland for the pur- 
pose of studying the glaciers of that region. Brief stops were, 
however, made at MHolstensborg, Godhavn, Jacobshavn and 
Atanikerdluk. Melville Bay was passed without notable inci- 
dent, the water being nearly free from ice. Cape York was 
reached on the 30th of July, and Whale Sound on the 31st 
Here for the first time, no more than twenty-five or thirty miles 
from our goal, ice was encountered in such quantity as to stay 
our progress. 
Mr. Peary’s headquarters were reached on the 3d of August, 
where the main facts concerning his year’s work were learned. 
The provisions which had been cached on the ice-cap for the 
trip of 1894, not being used that year, were relied upon for the 
journey of the succeeding season. In September 1894, after the 
departure of the Falcon, an attempt was made to visit the nearer 
caches. One of the objects of the visit was to get the provisions 
out from beneath the season’s snow, so as to make them more 
accessible when the journey of the following spring should be 
begun. Although the same caches had been visited in the pre- 
ceding July, and the provisions then raised to the surface of the 
snow, it was found in September that the snowfall of the summer 
had been so heavy that neither of the two most important caches 
could be found, even the signals having been completely buried. 
After this discovery little hope was entertained that search for 
the caches would be more successful in the following spring. 
As the buried caches contained the pemmican, which was to 
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