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won. On June Gth of this year, with five young men and liis 
wife to share the perils of this expedition. Peary sailed from New 
York for Whale sound, western Greenland. After advancing to 
the Humltoldt glacier and establishing a depot of supplies there, 
his plan is to return and spend the winter at Whale sound, in the 
vicinity of friendly J^skimos. In the summer of 1802. he will 
set out with sledges and dogs toward the northeast upon the 
inland ice. Portions of the supplies will he left on the route 
northward at Petermann fjord and the Sherard Osborn and Meigs 
fjords, and thence the party will push forward, as is hoped, to 
the extreme northern point of ('rreenland, an estimated total dis- 
tance of about 00(1 miles from the Humboldt glacier. Peary 
expects to accomplish this journey and the return within ten 
weeks, travelling fifteen to twenty miles per day: and he hopes 
to reach Whale sound again in season for passage home on some 
whaler Itefore winter. 
Nansens plan f(jr an Arctic voyage of perhaps five years, 
starting early in 1892. is explained l)y himself in The Forum 
(August. 1891. pp. 693-709. with map. — followed by an unhesi- 
tatingly adverse criticism, by Gen. A. W. Greely. pp. Tlii-Tlii). 
With a crew of ten or twelve. Nansen proposes to sail through 
Bering strait and thence northwestward nearly in the course of 
the ill-fated • • Jeannette. " ' until the marine current is reached l>y 
which drift-wood from Sil)erian rivers is borne away to lie stranded 
in Greenland, and Ijy which also an ice-floe, with relics of the 
Jeannette expedition upon it. was carried in three years 1)V some 
passage across the polar ocean to the southwest coast of Green- 
land near Julianshaal». Taking this current, with the ship frozen 
in the floe-ice during winter. Xansen hopes to drift by the near 
neighborhood of the pole and southward along the east coast of 
ilreenland: for the floe mentione<l. bearing articles from the 
Jeannette. is lielieved to have passed around Cape Farewell. If 
the ship should be lost, the party will encamp on the floe-ice with 
their provisions and boats, and will expect thus to reach per- 
chance some inhal»ited portion of the Greenland coast. 
Both these expeditions are to l)e led by young men. whose 
enthusiasm is heightened by their previous success in similar 
tasks; and the experience thus acquired will all be needed for 
these enterprises of so much greater ditticulty and danger, la 
wishiuii' to them each •• Hon vovage! " we cannot do otherwise 
