EARLY YEARS 
June 1 to make our return. We had one 
siedge and nine dogs. 
We reached Anniversary Lodge on June 
25, with one dog. 
The Grim Destroyer had been our constant 
companion, and it was months before I fully 
recovered from the effects of that struggle. 
When I left for home and God's Country the 
following September, on board the good old 
Kite, it was with the strongest resolution to 
never again ! no more ! forever ! leave my happy 
home in warmer lands. 
Nevertheless, the following summer I was 
again * 'Northward Bound," with Commander 
Peary, to help him secure, and bring to New 
York, the three big meteorites that he and Lee 
had discovered during the winter of 1894- 
1895. 
The meteorites known as "The Woman" 
and "The Dog" were secured with compara- 
tive ease, and the work of getting the large 
seventy-ton meteor, known as "The Tent," 
into such a position as to insure our securing 
it the following summer, was done, so it was 
not strange that the following summer I was 
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