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-u ,giat;ggH -sswMagy.yaiaaagsawipga5 -;ys Man and Wife of Peary's A Reindeer Point. Etah. Site of . 5V Type, or Women Eskimos &. Proposed Coal Depot J . Danish Greenland distances at slow speed. What I require is a ship that shall drive me through a distance of three hundred fifty miles even if she burns every ton if coal that she can carry A depot of coal at S.ilmie or Littleton Island, and the natural coal veins .it Dis covery Harbor will enable her to get back. I have now com pleted the plans for .i ship based upon mv own experi ence, and a careful study of the special ships for Polar work built by Norway, England, am Germany during the past ten yea which when she becomes an entity at the hands of American mechanics will le, I believe, the ablest Arctic ship that ever pointed her nose northward. New-ork, Philadelphia or any northern sea-coast city could well afford to build such a ship and lend her to me for my work. She would have dimension and power somewhat greater than those of any ocean-going tug in New-York Harlor. and when she returned she would make an effective fire boat, ocean-going tug anil ice-breaker that would force her way through any ice that ever forms in any of our northern harbors or rivers. The second stage of my work comprises the sledge trip from the northern shore of Grant Land to the Pole and back again. The requirements for this trip are such refinement of equipment, methods and per sonnel as will permit an aernge daily advance that will enable me to cover the distance of five hundred miles out and an equal distance back on the ra tions forming a maximum sledgc-load at starting. As my basis for my feeling that I may be able to give a good account of this portion of the journey, is the fact that the average air-line distance from start to finish of my journeys in the same latitudes in 1S02, 1S05, 1900 and 1002 is a little greater than the air-line dis tance from the northern shore of Grant Land to the Pole. The air-line distance of my sledge journey in the spring of 1000 was such that had my starting point, Iieen as far north as Abruzzi s it would have carried me to the Pole, or if my starting point had been as far north as Xansen's. or on the northern shore of Grant Land, it would have earned me beyond the Pole and back again. The prime factors in this part of the journey are: 1. My own practical experi ence, covering twelve years, and the refinement of methods and equipment resulting therefrom. 2. The utilization of the Eski mos as dog drivers: and 3. The utilization of dogs . 1 " 2P &-& 1 Mtm ,ns,c','"l of men for tractnc If mtrr- 1 1 2w9Et """ f",uir 0Vrh tfHHLK)L'J4iL n rcKar(' to tne Eskimos ji-- mfoniirr l 'iHHIIIBiVHI ,l caM'.v can '"-' understood rf&j&ajSfi&lMmM I I EjBKHral that these people, of all fHKBHFf&Byf ,1 I I jx'KrfjHKf J people upon the face of the I .BHIEiOlE"' """1 r WwHBRKSm' I arc 1cst to HEGiEsHr J I r I i wlWPB I form the rank and file of I HPffjjjrWfeurqJ i I I " ""-'is V.lFwRE' I nn rctlc party. Life and 1 MRPQfliKfiC?9K I " ttpjf 'HB wor'c ln tnat region is their I i"" "jHHr S&JSJSCT IT 1 iB ?si I natural hen tage. Never has i 3BiHn f$Sl I ts" IV W-sWoiSSr a ailable as it is now B&Z&&MKK2!Mai' I Si 1' 's mv intention practically J2piBMKE7 VS'd'fc x to redistnbute the entire tnlie Cr5"? "j ln such a way as to afford me the N5B5sS' k s. sC - most assistance, leaving the less iffectivc vVaSBjjfcS lv t ones thiv Summer Ellesmere shore CV- Mup Showinfi the P lie Tliat " S ones at mv sub-base at Lane babme, whe re X tin I'd .105 x?' 9i" 9" a5" 6tf n' 63 " a3 s " 35 " zS t: ysl : I vv.jv I ,0 M5 WIN. VN 1U7 " ....- N V-irS fv. SUNDAY MAGAZINE far JUNE instead lower In regard to the Eskimos it easily can be understood that these people, of all people upon the face of the earth, are liest fitted to form the rank and file of an Arctic partv. Life and work in that region is their natural hen tage. Never has their assistance been so aailable as it is now It is mv intention practicallv to rcdistnbute the entire tnb 1 such a wav as to afford me st assistance, leaving the less iffec at my sub-base at Cape Sabine, w will lie within reach of the walrus Travel, hunting-grounds; establish intenncdiate Land families lictneen there and the northern of Grant Land, and take the and flower of the tribe with me on board of the ship, to winter at the most northern base, and form my party across the Polar pack. The proper unit for effective work in the Arctic regions of the Western Hemisphere above seventy-six degrees north latitude is a team of six or eight good dogs, and a sledge with a load not to exceed five iP' 1 Ns$ 4Z C ' V 1 -i? .p'-.i Ti Jr Ps v;"; vTStl -r 2 -."-X ;- L-Jfrr -. Peary's Recent Discoveries in the .Vrctic, lie Purposes Following on 26. 1904 A Dello of South Greenland pick I believe that my experience, gamed in years of practical work, my special methods of tracl anil equipment, the evolution of years of prac tical work, my personal acquaintance with i co feature of my chosen route and region: and my com mand of the utmost efforts and full resources of the entire little tribe of Whale Sound hyjierboreans who have lived and worked with me for years. gie sub stantial reasons for anticipating and the Pxoute His Next Venture MliiWPHMffsteV. II hundred pounds at tht maxi mum t- eath man Thi- gnes a traehng unit of m.i-Nimum sjx'ed anl raihu if rcaih. The hea y man-sledg. of four, sin eightoreen twehe men, uithaload from one thousand to over two thousand pounds, is the last kind of sledge in the world for rapid progress in northern latitudes. The adantages of mv plan and route are : a fixed land base a hundred miles nearer the pole than any other route , a more ngid pack extending Poleward than o be found on the opposite side nf le . a w ider land bae up m huh to re tR at . and a w ell-beaten line 1 it 1 . .m mumcation and retreat from winter quarters to comparatively low latitude a successful outcome of an c nj.i dition based on these line-. Such in outline is the proicc t such the aims and obit 1 1-, which hae the approal 1 t President Rooscelt. of Judge Darling. Acting Seen tan "t tin Xavy: of scientists and geo graphers, both as indiwdiiik and as organizations : of t he 1 rt -of this country and abroad ami of the majonty of the pen; ' The Polar quest to-d i in this country is not a timli-h fancy or vague, idle dream 1 1 is a broad, national, business proposition, which should hae the financial support of e e r t of means sufficient to en.iMi them without sacrifice to assi projects of scientific and iu1 riotic interest and nati. .ral prestige. What is the value of re.u hmi; the Pole? Its value lies in that getting there will pave the w.i t.r observation of refinement v, rh the pendulum and in the t.tl.ls of magnetism and meteord. .; . which will enable a rigid d u r minatiou of the figure of t! earth, thus fixing the first 1 m stant in astronomical dist.itui s and will permit a clearer dc t p tion and more precise apjiln a' ti of the laws of magnetism .1' .1 meteorology; that readmit; r will open up and reveal economics of three millions, t; ,'. milts of the earth's sur' m whuh stands to-day as .1 1 i ltiige and a repmach t lis ,, that its attainment will lr- lln Lontmutd on fill?? 'Si il l a-c -VlfTOT- lfv ' " ili1 a.