Ten Years of the Peary Arctic Club 667 



COMMANDER PEARY AND HERBERT L. BRIDGMAN, SECRETARY OE THE PEARY ARCTIC 

 CLUB, SAYING FAREWELL ABOARD THE "ROOSEVELT" 



1905. Roosevelt, Bucksport to Portland, to 



New York, to Sydney, to Cape Sheri- 

 dan and winter quarters. 



1906. Roosevelt, winter quarters, Cape Sheridan 



to Sydney and New York. 

 1908. Roosevelt, New York to Sydney and 

 winter quarters. 



Of the sledge and field work of the 

 Club, it so far exceeds that of any other 

 expedition that it may be fairly ques- 

 tioned whether it does not equal that of 

 all combined. Six times along the ice- 

 foot from Cape Hawkes to Fort Conger 

 its sledges broke the way, until it re- 

 sembled an open road, while Smith 

 Sound, Robeson Channel, and Lincoln 

 Sea were gridironed in all directions with 

 their trails. 



On the Greenland coast, delimiting for 

 the first the northern boundary of this 

 mysterious continent, it fixed Cape Mor- 

 ris K. Jesup in 1900, the highest northern 

 land in the Western Hemisphere, and 

 probably connected farther to the east 

 the new land with Independence Bay, dis- 



covered by Peary six years before. The 

 game located on this former journey also 

 proved the salvation of the party upon 

 their return from the farthest north, six 

 years later. From Fort Conger north to 

 Cape Hecla, from Cape Sheridan west,, 

 in the summer of 1906, the ice-foot af- 

 forded a path to the farthest west,, 

 whence the hitherto-unknown Crocker 

 Land was visible, and the definite map- 

 of the Arctic Archipelago still farther 

 extended. 



Of the memorable sledge journeys 

 across the polar pack, that of 1902, to 

 84. 1 7 , highest north on the American 

 Hemisphere, and that four years later to- 

 87. 6°, the highest north, the leader has 

 the rightful prerogative of description ; 

 but they are recognized as among the 

 major achievements of Arctic annals, not 

 only in latitude attained, but in posses- 

 sion and exercise of those qualities which 

 are the price of all Arctic success. The 

 total number of miles covered by the 



