THE BIG LEAD 
March 5: A clear bright morning, 20° 
below zero; quite comfortable. Reached here 
yesterday at two-forty-five p. m., after some 
of the finest going I have ever seen. Com- 
mander Peary, Captain Bartlett, and Dr. 
Goodsell here, and fourteen Esquimos. First 
view of the sun to-day, for a few minutes at 
noon, makes us all cheerful. It was a crimson 
sphere, just balanced on the brink of the 
world. Had the weather been favorable, we 
could have seen the sun several days earlier. 
Every day following he will get higher and 
higher, until he finally swings around the sky 
above the horizon for the full twenty-four 
hours. 
Early in the morning of the 5th, Peary sent 
a detachment of three Esquimos, in charge 
of MacMillan, back to bring in Borup's cache, 
left by him at the point where he turned back 
to return to the land for more loads. This 
detachment was back in camp by four o'clock 
in the afternoon of the same day. Nothing 
left to do but to rearrange the loads and wait 
for the lead to close. 
The land is still in sight. Professor Marvin 
has gone back with two boys and is expected 
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