THE 
Peary Auxiliary Expedition 
of 1894 
BY 
HENRY G. BRYANT 
Greenland may be regarded as one of the few countries which 
still present problems of primary importance to the explorer. 
Known to Europeans since the days of Erik the Red, the wan- 
dering Viking who is credited with discovering and colonizing 
the region in the latter part of the loth century, the northern and 
northeastern outlines of this great continental area are still rep- 
resented on our maps by lines of conjectural rather than ascer- 
tained exactness. Yet, in view of the physical disadvantages at- 
tending research in the region, the achievements of the past can- 
not be lightly estimated and the eventual survey of the unknown 
