tfHE PITTSBURG . DISPATCH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER '25, PEARY'S TALE .' OF HIS TRIP E OVERJHE ICE, Tho Daring Lieutenant Tells the Details of a Peril-' ons AdTentnre TO THE BEADEBS OF THE DISPATCH. Days of Toilsome Trudging and Kiglits of Wakeful Vigils in a Determined Attempt I climbed the ice cap. I had 1 there and remain in that capacity, until mv riturn irom tne miana ice. TO AID MAP MAKERS OP FDTDEE GEOGRAPHIES. Tough Work for Eight BajB, at the End of Which a. Fresh Start Had to Bo Made hy the Yojagers. Sixty-Four Hours of Sleeplessness Dur ing: a Terrible Storm A Genuine Case of Dog Eat Dog Excellent Caution That Repaid Itself The Luxury of a Snow Bath Fall Into a Trap That Took Two Days for the Traveler to Dislodge Himself "Warm Weather in the Arctic Region That Seemed Like July. - fSrECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUX DISPATCH. Xew Yoke, Oct. 24. Lieutenant Peary has written for The Dispatch the follow ing account of his expedition to Greenland. On the last day of April, 1892, in mag nificent, bracing weather, the cliffs at the head of McCormick Bay clear cnt as cameos through the frosty air, Dr. Cook, Gibson, Astrup, Kioahpadu, Tahwahnah, Koo koo and two Eskimo boys, opportune ar rivals of the night before, left Badcliffe, our winter camp, with two sledges and eight dogs dragging the last ot the inland ice supplies. Xow, three days later, the time had come lor me to start. This was the moment toward which the studies of six years had tended, the mark to which every movement of the preceding rear had been directed and made subservi ent. The countless little things which alwavs crowd last moments of preparation were completed, and my house was put in srder. It was 8 o'clock in the evening when I year, when been met by tarious storms, but eventuallr everything had turned oat well, and ao 1 accepted this as a good omen. Twice again we climbed the bluff, the dogs falling to me on oue trip and. my big dog sledge on the next, the boys bringing up the remainder of the load. Carrying every thing to the gorge, the sledges were loaded there, and we-began the transnortation from the troree to Cacbe camp, at the edge of the lot, three 1 muesrrom. camp and 2,325 feet above tea level. A Hard Job for Two Days. Several steep slopes in the gorge and on the plateau above required all the dogs and our best efforts on each of the larger sledges. Two days were, consumed in bring ing up to the Cache camp, where Matt and Gibson had built a snow igloo, and where we cooked our meals in a fireplace among the rocks of the Nunatak, close by. During all this time there were signs of coming atmospheric disturbances of more than usual intensity. A precipitation of fine frost crystals intermitted with tran sient snow squalls; exquisite cloud effeots formed and vanished in and over McCor mick Bay, while over the inland ice wicked looking white cumuli grew against a dark, lead-colored sky. The night temperatures at this time were 1 degree and 3 degrees be low zero. At Cache camp onr supplies and equipment were sorted and distributed to the different sledges, and here began our serious trouble with our wild wolves, called by courtesy dogs. Restless under their new masters, and fighting constantly among themselves, these brutes gave us not a moment's peace. Hardly an hour passed when not at work that one or two did not manage to break their harness or eat off their traces, free themselves, and sometimes four or five would be loose at once. To capture and re secure one of them was alwavs a work of time and of more or less ingenuity, and frequently resulted In a general muster for repairs at the driver's hands. Attempt to Make the Next Stage. On the 8th I attempted to make the next stage from Cache camp up the lower slopes of ice. but a strong wind, nlowing down from the interior and driving the loose snow in the face of my dogs, discouraged them so completely that we could do noth ing with them, and so we were obliged to await the pleasure of the weather. Finally we got under way and succeeded in advanc ing a short stage round the north side of the first big hummock. "With no sleep for C4 hours I think I must have fallen asleep the moment I tum bled into the igloo. Twelve hours later I awoke to hear the rush of the wind over our shelter and the hiss of the drifting snow againBt its side. This continued for 24 hours, when I could stand it no longer, and Gibson and JZ started for the upper igloo. The igloo was almost completely buried in the snow. Its occupants had not been able to expose themselves to the wind. The dogs, restless as always in wind, had fought with eath other and chewed at the'r harness and traces till half ot them were loose and running at will about the sledges and provisions. The rest of the dogs were half buried in a huge drift which had formed about them, and ai I got nearer I saw that three out of the 20 were victims of the dread piblukto, Or dog disease, and were already nearly dead. Hard Battling Against the Wind. As the wind was still blowing with such force that it was impossible to do anything, Gibson and myself crouched in the lee of the igloo, and while waiting for the storm to cease learned from Dr. Cook that they had been unable to get out of their shelter, and, in iact, had had all they could do to save it from destruction by the resistless sandblast of the driving snow; that several tins of provisions, set in motion by the dogs, had been swept down the steep slope into the glacier below, and that the dogs had eaten or destroyed everything left that thev could get at Fortunate!?, the latter item was not larg, as all of my stores Were'j in substantial tins. So the work went on, much to my dis The snow was so bad after malting but a few miles from Camp Separation that the sledge sank in it nearly to the crossbars, and this, together with the upgrade from the Humboldt basin, made the hauling so heavy that alter a few hours my dogs re iused absolutely to work any more, and I was obliged to go into camp. At this camp we commenced our regular sledge ration, with a daily allowance of butter and Liebig extract nt Matt out to tell my huskies, Kioah- PAnmpnf. witIl Am. tanHn, .n.t padu and Tahwahnah, to help him get the utter dUreeard ot hours of rest, until the believe, big dog sledge down over the ice foot and harness the dogs. The Start Made In the Evening. The start was made in the evening, for during the next three months the usual order of things was to be reversed, and we were to travel by night and sleep by day. My team of 12 great bear dogs, which had been resting for a week since their dash around Inglefield Gnlf, were full of life and fire, and I saw by the way they jerked Matt and the huskies down over the ice foot in their dash for the sledge, and the relish with which they pitched into each other when the different factions met, that Matt, skillful as he had become in the use of the whin, would have trouble in getting them 3own to work for the first mile or two. So I told him to go on and I would overtake him. A hearty handshake(and goodby to Ver hoeffj who wished me the fullest realiza tions of all my hopes, and I turned to say goodby to my faithful natives, but not one in the settlement was to be seen. Having finished helping Matt harness the dogs they had vanished into their huts. Anger That Could Xot Be Dared. The Kapetausoak was going away, never to return. Powerful as he was the spirits of the Sermiksoak, or Great Ice, were more powerful, and no mortal might dare their anger and be seen again by human eyes. They would not say goodby. Mrs. Peary was to accompany me to Mill Point, and we followed the sledge tracks in silence for some distance. At first the sound of Matt's voice, the crack of his whip, and the howls of the dogs came clearly through the freezing air. Then a point of the shore came between and silenced them. Badcliffe disappeared behind a hill, and the sun had already dropped behind the north ern shore of the bay. We might have been the sole occupants of the eaith. I knew how the brave woman by my side was struggling with her fears for me, though hers was to be the harder lot, and I did my best to cheer her. I knew by her final good by that I had but partly succeeded. A turn in the shore hid the fur-clad figure, with beautiful Jack crouched by its side, from sight, and I lengthened the stride of my snowshoes to overtake the sledge. Scrambling Over the Ice Float. Four hours later my team was scrambling over the ice float at the" head of the bav. The place where we reached the Bhore wis close to the site of our Tuktoo camp of last year, and our route to the interior led from here up a steep bluffj some 1,200 feet In height, and then over a succession of ter races to the edge of the great ice cap, four miles distant. A few moments later my inland ice sledge, which had come up, Was lashed on the big dog sledge which was on my back, with Matt following at mv heels with a co.uple of 25-pound tins, we began climbing the bluff; Sharp rocks, with the spaces be tween tbem filled with snow, made travel ing laborious and slow, and it was about 3 o'clock in the morning when I rose over the edge of the bluff and stumbled upon mr boys asleep in the snow, with their dog's picketed near. I did,not intend to disturb them, but as I put down my sledge and turqed to descend Dr. Cook awoke with a start and very soon all were awake. I found all ot the supplies had been backed to the gorge, half a mile above the camp, and everything was in readiness to start with the dogs from that point. The Inland Ice on Its Way. Returning to the ice boat Matt and I brought up another load, and then leaving Matt to get a little sleep with the other boys, I went down to my dogs and turned in as I was, in my furs, in the remains of a snow hut near the bay. When I awoke a few hours later the boys were at the door of the igloo, and I found on looking up the valley that my old friend, the inland ice, was evidently preparing its usual reception for me, the leaden gray clouds rapidly float ing above it, giving every indication of an acDroaching storm. . . u ... ....,. . . unnousiy enougn, Dotn in issbo, wnen'l 1 15th. I had been led to believe, as the re suit of the reconnoisance made the previous fall, that after the first slope had been sur mounted, a nearlv level route could be found. It seems that the deceptive light of the autnmn days had misled .Astrup and Gibson, and I found that I must draw my sledges and their loads up one snow slope and down another for a distance of at6ut 15 miles before reaching the easy, gradual slope of the true inland ice. -At lost, how ever, on the 14th, having rattled merrily down the northern slope ot Dome Mountain, I found myself looking up at that long, easy, white slope which I knew so well, and in regard to which there could be no mistake, and the next day our march upon the true inland ice may be said to have commenced. , Men Taking the Place of the Dogs. At this time I had but 16 dogs out of my 20, another one having succumbed to the dog disease. As a result, we all of us set tled into the traces and did our Share of hauling. Two short marches of five and seven miles brought us to an elevation of 5,000 feet, and early in the third march, the highest summits of the Whale Sound land disappeared, and I found, to my surprise, that we were descending, having already passed over the divide between Whale Sound and Kane Basin, and being already on the descent toward the basin of the Humboldt glacier. The blue-black sky with angry, lead-colored clonds massing be neath it, the ghastly whiteness of the ice blink, and the raw, cutting southeast wind. could not be misunderstood, and before our igloo was complete everything was blotted out bvthe driviugsnow. Poo'r Gibsonl I pitied him that night, for it was his turn to do the costume set, as we called it; in other words, It was his turn to sleep fully dressed and outside, so that he could attend instantly to a loose dog be fore he had done any damage. Our dogs were always bad enough in wind and storm, hnt this time, as the storm continued they seemed as if possessed of devils, howling, -fighting and tearing themselves loose from the stakes to which they were fastened, and when finally Gibson, weary with his efforts at recapturing them, fell asleep for a few moments, leaning against the entrance of the igloo, one of them ate the bottom of his sleeping bag, while another bolted about six pounds, 'nearly halt my entire stock, of cranberry jam. A Storm Forty-Eight Hours Iong. Forty-eight hours of incessant wind and snow, and then the storm passed over into Kane basin and left us in peace. As we crawled ont of our igloo into the brilliant sunshine that Sunday morning, and looked over the unbroken expanse of snow stretch ing to the horixon in every direction, carved and scoured by the wind into marble waves, there was no one of the party who conld hardly realize that the church bells were ringing through the scented atmos phere of green fields and forests in thou sands of far distant towns and villages. Our sledges were invisible, completely buried in the drifts which in all storms on the inland ice grow around and over every obstruction. But once nnder way we found that the storm had in one sense been our friend, and had proved a glorious road maker for us. Sledges ana dogs slipped merrily over the firm sastrugi, and with very little exertion we made another 20 mile march. This time jre slept behind our sledges, and another 20-mile march the fol lowing day brought us to the camp in which I had determined the supporting "party should leave us. We were now 130 miles from the shore of McCormick Bay. A Dangerous Detail Made Oat. I said to my men it would seem a danger ous, perhaps foolhardy, thing for two men to strike out into those unknown region dependent only upon their own resources and good health ior a safe return, but that for myself I did not consider it dangerous or difficult. That, however, each man mutt decide for himself. Dr. Cook was the first to speak, but Gibson and Astrup were close behind hint I then made my detail at fol lows! Astrup to go with me and, Gibson to return in command of the supporting party, and when ha had reached Redoilfle Hoot to, 'devote hit entire time U obtaining or nithological specimens .and tnpnlvlnirthe party with game. Dr. Cook,-upon tut arJ went on the jnland ice, and twice again thisl rival at Bedcliffe, -wai i mmum- ehargi! A Case of Dog Eat Dog. At this camp, also, one of my dogs, down with the dog disease, was killed and fed to the others, disproving Conclusively the old saying that "dog will not eat dog." The following day the continuance of the upgrade and the increasing depth of the snow compelled us to resort to donble baflking, and the end of the day found us but three miles ahead of our last camp. Ourselves tired, and our dogs out ot sorts, Astrup and myself ate our dinner in silence, ana were giaa to lose ourselves in sleep. The morning found us refreshed and with a new stock of courage, but still I felt that if by hard work and no end of trouble I could gain ten miles I should be satisfied. To my agreeable surprise the next camp found us 15 miles further on our way, and this without a mishap or hitoh throughout the march. We were now evidently at the top of the grade, and could soon expect a slight descent on the northern side of the divide, toward the basin of the Petermann Fjord. The next day proved the truth of these conclusions. The mow surface became harder and harder, the aneroid and the sledges both indicated a gradual descent, and after six hours' marching we came upon a firm, marble-like surface, ahowing 'evi dence of most violent wind forces, and scored and carved until it looked like a great bed of white lava. " Xand Sighted to the Northwest. Two hours later land was sighted to the northwest, and after another two hours I called a halt, with a record of 20 aniles for the day. On the last day of May we had ad vanced but five miles, when, as we rose on to the crest of a lone; hummock, the head of Petermann, with its guarding monntains and the great basin of the glacier discharg ing into It. hashed into sight below us. Here we were on the ice bluffs forming the limit of Jthe great glacier basin, just as we had beenat Humboldt. I found it necessary to deflect some ten miles to the eastward, to avoid the inequal ities of the' glacier basin ahd the great crevices whicn cut the ice bluffs encircling it. It bad been my good fortune to look down from the serene heights of the inland ice into the feeder basin of three of the greatest glaciers in the world Jacobshavn, Tossukatak and Great Kariak. It was with strange feelings of uncertainty that I looked upon this view. I could hardly di vest myself of the feeling that the ragged, shining ice field dropping away from my feet to the glistening ice caps stretching up into Washington Land and the dark mountains guarding the distant shores might vanish, and leave me with only the unbroken ice horizon of previous days. A Day or Two of Beautiful Weather. The weather being so clear, and our lo cation to lavorable tor observation, I made no attempt to advance further, but I camped at once and began observations for determ ining positions and the bearing of the land. In this camp we remained 36 hours, with a continuance of the most perfect weather, warm, clear, and, what was most unusual, calm. For two or three hours at midday my thermometer in the sun registered 77, and advantage was taken of this to thoroughlydry and air all our clothing, and for myself to enjoy the luxury of a snow bath. Leaving Camp Petermann and the circling bluffs of the great Petermann glacier basin I kept away due east, parallel with a series of gigantic crevasses, most of which were covered with snow, though in places drifts of snow had fallen in, exposing the blue- black depth ot the chasm. i. tried repeat edly to get an idea from the walls of these clefts in the ice of the gradual change from surface snow to neve and thence to true homogenous ice, but my efforts were thwarted by incrustations of fine Bnow upon the sides of the crevasse and a lux uriant growth of exquisite trost crystals and even icicles. The ten miles to the eastward enabled us to flank all the cre vasses, and again I took up my course north east, hoping to clear the basin of Sherard Osborn as fortunately as I had weathered Humboldt and Petermann. At the Summit of the Divide. From Camp Petermann mountains were in tight for 40 miles. Then the aneroid began to show a gradual rise, the snow be came softer .and deeper, and I knew that we were beginning the ascent of the divide between the Petermann and Sherard Os borne basins. Still we were able to make fairly good progress, and half a march and three full ones brought us to the summit of the divide. From the divide summit, as in every pre vious instance', we found the traveling very good, and With the wind behind us were able to make 19)4 ad 21 miles respectively in two successive marches, camping in view of Sherard Osborne Fjord, as I at first sup posed, on June 8. I had not expected to sight land again so soon, and if the maps were correct it should have taken about two marches more to have brought me within sight of Sherard Osborne, but I assumed that naturally the delineation of the inner portion of Sherard Osborne might be considerably out of latitude, and that what I saw before me must be Sherard Osborne. Future developments showed me that I was wrong, and that St George's Fjord penetrated farther inland than had been supposed, and that this was what lay before me. A Rapid Descent, After All. The latter part of the march of June 8 had been through threatening weather, the sky overcast, the distant land dark and in distinct, and the peculiar light over the in land ice, which made it impossible to dis tinguish, its relief. I knew, however, not only from my aneroid, but from the way the sledges traveled, that we were descend ing quite rapidly, and this, with the occur rence of several patches ot bare blue ice, caused me to hesitate and finally call a halt on the completion of the 21st mile, though we could easily have accomplished four or five miles more. The experiences of the next two weeks showed the wisdom of my cautiousness, and that it would have been much better it I had had a premonition of trouble still earlier in the day. We had hardly made camp and finished onr dinner when the gathering storm broke upon us, and once more we had to endure imprisonment Astrup under the tarpaulin in 'lieu of the sledges, myself in the little excavation half covered with a sail, which we called our kitchen. For two days the wind howled above us down the slope towara toe aistant tana, and the blinding drifts of snow whirled past our little shelter. On the Edge of the Glacier Basin. When the storm ceased and we crawled out of the drifts in which both ourselves and bur sledges were buried, I saw at a stance that we were right on the southern edge of the central trough of the glacier basin. The descent to this consisted almost entirely of blue ice, swept clean by the furious wind, and so .steep that our Sledges would have been unmanageable. The op posite tide rose in , crevassed and steep tided ice waves, unscalable for our heavily loaded sledges. At far as the glass conld reach, across the glacier basin to the northeast, the crevices and patches' of blue ice continued southeast, and south steep icy slopes, but fortunately free of crevices, rose above us. It was evi dent there was but one thing to do, viz. : To climb those cliff's to the southeast, beating to windward, as it were, out of the reefs and off the lee shore, on which we found ourselves. Zt took two entire days of the hardest and most discouraging work of the entire Journey to extricate ourselves from the trap into which we had fallen, and at the end of the two days we had lost 15 miles of our hard-earned northing. Steep blue slopes, which had to be scaled in the teeth of a furiout head iwind, strained sledges and dogs, braised'abd tired Astrup and myself wita, onstant laiis, ana necessitated tne utmost care to prevent all from being swept into the glacier below. Oat of the Trap at iAst At last, however, we regained the un broken snow-clad heights of the inland, and never did I appreciate more fully the old German song, "Auf dem Hdhen 1st Frei heit." Once more we could set our couise and keep it In this work Nalegaksoak,my best dog and king of the team, received a sprain which resulted in my losing him four days later. Here, too, I lost my spy glass in a crevasse, and narrowly escaped the loss of Lion and Pan, two of my best dogs. In another crevasse both fell till their traces stopped them, and then hung suspended until hoisted out. Once back on the upper level of the in land, 6,000 feet above the sea, and with clear weather to help me, I could make out the orography of the surface, and could see the depression of the . glacier basin still sweeping away to the. eastward. Bearing away to the eastward ' until I conld round this depression, I again started northeast I was soon brought up, however, bv another group of crevasses, 50 to 100 feet in width, extending across my course, and, as luck would have it, just as I reached these a dense fog swept up the glacier basin from the coast, shrouding the crevasses and our selves in a light which made it dangerous to advance in any direction. Big Crevasses Had to Be Flanked. The only thing to do was to wait until this cleared away, which was not until 18 hours later. Then a half hour's reconnois sance enabled me to flank the crevasses and proceed on my -course again. By this time Astrup and myself had named the glacier basin which had caused us so much trouble, the bottomless pit, and had grown to hate the sight ot the land. I made up my mind now, in order to avoid further delay and annoyance from those great glacier basins, to strike ttill further into the interior, so as to avoid them completely. In attempting to carry out this plan, however, I found the snow increasing in depth so rapidly and the sur face of the inland ice rising at such a steep frade as I advanced into the interior, that began to waver in my decision, and finally gave up in favor of a more northerly course. We had hardly made four miles in this direction, when once more the big sledge, strained and weakened by the rough work of the last eight days, broke down again, and we lost an eatire day in repairing and relashing it and restoring its load. All the Dogs at One Sledge. The first drop in temperature was eagerly seized upon to advance again, and with Astrup and myself assisting, and with all the dogs at one sledge, we succeeded with double banking in advancing 6' miles. The following day the going'was much bet ter, but hardly had we got well straight ened out before the land, this time in reality the shores of Sherard Osborne, rose into view ahead ot us, and once more I found myself compelled to deflect first to the northeast and then to the east. Night found us 16 miles to our credit, and another great glacier basin yet to be weathered. An idea of the next day can perhaps be best obtained from an extract -from my journal: Another discouraging day within sight of the baleful shores of this Arctlo Sahara, hut we are on the height once for good, I hope, and I also trust free from further obstaolesi iftheiels any truth in the superstition of the evil eye, the coasts of this inland ice surely have evil eyes. Just as long as the black cliffs peer up at us over the round of the Ice oap, just so long are we beset with crevasses, slippery ice, hummocks, howling wind storms, lurious drifts and fogs. The dogs seem possessed with devils, the sledge and odometer broken, some Item or other of our equipment is suie to be lost, and everything seems to go wrong. Once out of its sight we find summer weather, light winds, little drift in a word, peace and comfoit. The intolerable drift last night gave as no chance to sleep com fortabiy, as it beat Under and through every minute aperture of the tarpaulin, and melted as it fell on our faces and olothing. Oue or my best do?s. Castor, was dead lame in one leg and unable to pull, and the traces .were fearfully tangled and frozen into the arm ai me nucaing pose Only Eight Miles of Headway. We had advanced but eight miles when we found onrselves hemmed In by a series of huge concentric crevices. The remainder of the day was spent in reconnoiterlng for safe snow bridges by which they could be crossed. This could .be done only in a southeasterly direction, and night found us further south than we were in the morning. Once two of my dogs were down in a crevasse, and once the little sledge, with all our biscuits and 100 pounds of pemmi can, broke through, and but for a project ing ledge of ice on the edge of the crevasse, which temporarily supported it till Astrup and myself could pull it out of danger, we should have lost an. At night, a feeling of relief at beiner again out of the woods, as it were, sent me, it such a thing were possible, to even sounder sleep than usual, ' and 0U hours of refreshing slumber put a hungry brain and body in better trim, and gave everything a very different rspect During this march tfe covered 18 miles over a snow surface, which every now and then, as we marched along, settled slightly beneath our weight, with a sound remind ing me of the swash of the ground-swell breaking in calm summer days on the beach at Seabright or Long Branch, otbii long white Carribbean beaches backed by palms and wavering under a vertical sun. Mild Attack of the Blues Confessed. The next day, although we covered 18 miles, both Astrup and myself had a mild attack ot the blues, partly because we were obliged to buckle down and help the dogs all day, but principally, I think, because, with the utmost exertion, it seemed impos sible tor us to raise the day's record to 20 miles again. The next day, however, we once more got in the swim and closed our record that night with 20U miles, land be ing visible to the northwest, north and north-northeast all day. , The moral effect of our better poing and our better speed Was very perceptible, both on ourselves and our dogs. At times the latter would of themselves break into a trot, and we had been marching but a short time when I heard Astrup singing merrily as he kept along beside the sledge. During this march the sun seemed unusually warm, and toward morning even sultry, compell ing us to throw off all our outer garments. The following day was but a repetition of the last, and we skipped merrily along on our way at a constant elevation of about 6,000 feet, the mountains visible to the northwest nearly all the time. All Again in the Best of Spirits. At the close of this march we turned in in the best of spirits. We had again made our 20niiles, and there-was every Indication that we had now surmounted all obstacles and would have plain sailing for the rest of our journey. The temperature bad become so high that at this camp I seized the oppor tunity to take another refreshing snow bath and discard my dogskin and deerskin suit for my reserve of sealskin. The record of June 26 is best told by my journal: Slept in the kitchen last night with no cuveuaif. xnia morning, as we started, heavy, white clouds oovered the entire sky, except a narrow ribbon or blue south and southwest. My course was northeast true, but land appearing to the northwest, north and northeast soon after starting, 1 changed oourse an hour later to east true. The loom of the land extended all the way round to the east, but lortnnately for my spirits, a high Ice cap is visible north over the com paratively Hat, round top, ice-capped land. The entrance to a fjord with precipitous black shores lies north noithwest tiue fiom us. At we advanced to the east the clouds increased In density, and light, drivinir snow came np from the southwest, shioudlug the ice with that shadowless light which makes even the snow beneath one's feet invisible. I kept on, however, still keeping my course to the wind, until the very perceptible de scent warned me, from past experiences, to halt and wait for clearer weather. This 1 did after a march of ten miles. A Fortunate Stop Made. When the snow ceased several hours later the land loomed up close ahead of us, and bad I continued blindly through tna fog I should have brought rignt up In the head of a large glacier discharging to the north ward. Our. next march to the southeast was a short one, only ten miles, and parallel uith .the land. Daik brown and redcl Iff looked down into a grand, vertical-wuliedonnoii, reaching up toward our ramp, and every where to the' northwest, north and cast. domes of ice stretohed away in a wild pan orama upon which no human eye had ever looked before. The glorious summer cairn and warmth of the last three days was now accounted for by tho presence of so mucn surrounding land. , Assuming the fjord ahead of me to be Victoria Inlet, and thinking I could round it, as I had already rounded Petermann, St George's and Sherard Osborne fjorn, I kept away to the southeast, parallel with the edge of the island ice and the shore. But always as we advanced the mountains of the Shore grew into view before me,keep ing me constantly to the southeast till the 1st of July. On that day a wide opening, bounded on either side by hlgb vertical cliffs, showed up in the northeast oyer the tummits immediately adjacent to th in land ice. Beautiful land In the Distance. Changing my course, 'to the northeast true, my elevation at the time being some 6,000 le'et above sea level, sledges and dogs sped merrily down the constantly-increasing gradient of tho ice cap, straight for the red-brown mountains or the strange land. The land, though yet some miles away, seemed as if at our vory feet, and as if we might easily throw a stone upon it. We could plainly see the green rivers and lakes along the margin of the ice, and the murmur of roaring Cataraots came softly to our ears. I selected the hiebest convex of a crescent moraine whloh climbed well up into the Ice cap as my landing point, and after wading innumerable streams and floundering through a mile of slush, which covered the lower portion of the landward slope of tho ice, we clambered upon the confused rocks of the moraine and drageed the sledge up high and dry. Stopping only long enough to open a can of pemmican and change my skin for snowshoes, I left Astrup to look arter the dogs and turn in and hastened on down to the land'for the purpose of climb ing a summit some five miles from the edge of the ice. whiah unftaientlv commanded a full view or the great break in the coast rib bon. A mile or more of slush, a 200-foot slide down the nearly 45-degree slope of the ex treme edge of the ice, and my feet were on the sharp, chaos-strewn rocks which cover the leeward borders of this land of rock. As Oppressive Warmth as in July. The fierce July sun, though but a little past the northern meridian, beat down upon me with oppressive warmth. Before me the warm, red-brown, landscape wavered and trembled in the yellow light; behind me toweied the blinding, white slope of the ice. Beneath my feet the stones were bare even of llohens, and had a dry, gray look, as if they were the bones of a dead world. Apd yetl felt that with so much of warmth and richness of coloring there must be life, and, sure enough, hardly had I gone a hun dred yards from the edge of the Ice when a beautltul little black-and-white songster fluttered up from behind a rock, hovered singing almost within leach above my head, and. then settled upon a bleak stone but a few feet distant to finish his merry song. As I went on numbers of these snow bunt ings flitted about me, and hardly had I gone a mile before my heart beat quicker at the sight ot traces of musk oxen. As 1 got farther away from the ice, and in the lee of the glgantio moraines and tumuli of glacial debris, flowers began to appear, purple and white and yellow, among them my ever present brilliant yellow friend, the arctic poppy. A Rendezvous of Musk Oxen. Still traveling along toward the mountain, with eyes constantly alert for musk oxen, I received a shock like that of Crusoe when he spied the footprints on the beaoh. In a little level space, sheltered on all sides was a large angular boulder of trap, with one vertical face, and before this face were a number of irregularly arranged stones in a rank growth of vivid green grass. Through oat all the inhabited shores of Greenland a patob of luxuriant grass is always the sign of a sometime igloo, and it was with peculiar feelings that I hastened to the spot. A closer examination showed the plaoe to be a musk: ox rendezvous. Bits of tbelr hair and wool were sticking to the rock and scattered on the ground, a weather-worn skull lay a few yards away, and the unusual growth of grass was due to'tbe presence of the musk oxen. From this point on the musk ox trails were as thick as sheep paths in a Now Eng land pasture, and knowing the sagacity of these animals to He in the direction of a favorable route, I was glad to make use of their paths. But my mountain seemed to recede as I advanced, and it was eight hours before I reaohed its summit, onlyvto find that two or three other summits intervened between me and the full view out, through the fault In the coast line. The five miles of apparent distance had? lengthened out to at least 12 miles of actuoi-dlstance, and most men, less accustomed to estimating distance than I had been, would have called it con siderably more. Tempted to Go Still Farther. I was strongly tempted to go on still farther, bat the condition of my footgear precluded it The soles ot both kammlks were already cut through, and one or two edges of sharp rocks had even reached and cut my feet. It was questionable whether I could fix up my footgear to enable me to fet back without mote or less serious in ury to my feet. With the assistance of a pair of sealskin mittens and a skull cap, I patohed up my footgear, and, after an hour's rest, starteo. on my return to tne camp on the moraine, Long before I reached the edge of the ice I was obliged to add to the protection of my feet such portions of my garments as I could spare, and it was with such feelings as those of one who had been suddenly lelieved from an exornoiatlng toothache that I stepped irom tne ragged rocxs upon tne miana ice and strapped on my Bnowshoes. Almost a Failure, After All. As' I neared the moraine I saw Astrup perched on its summit looking anxiously for me, fori had been gone 15 hours Instead of fonr or five, as I intended when I started. I found my dinner, lunch, breakfast, what ever it might be called, of tea, pemmican and biscuit ready for me, and when I had satisfied my hunger and stretched myself out on the rocks to sleep, it seemed as if never before had I been so sore and tired. I had been traveling and climbing rdr 23 hours, and I felt to a marked degree the ohange from the drv. cold atmosDhere of the inland ice to the moister and almost torrid atmosphere of the land. More than than this, my reoonnoissance had failed of its object, and It would now be necessary for Astrup and myself to take three or four days' supplies and dogs and march overland to whatever distance might be necessary to cive me the unobstructed definite outlook which I mast have. After a few hours' Bleep we made Up our, pauKS, auu, myaeu in me leuu, .astrup iui lowlng with the dogs, I started once moie to wrest its secret from this tantalizing land. It E. Piakt, U. S. M. CCETTB D' ALETTE TEOtJBLES. black and dark red precipices, deep valleys.! mountains oappeu witu loud-shdowed A Guerrilla War In Prospect Between the Union and Jon-Unlon Miners. Missoula, Monk, Oct 24. In the Ccenr d'Alene mines, although the leaders of the Miners' Union have been imprisoned, there is a prospect of a guerrilla war that will not be easily stamped out The Gem mine promises to be again selected for the firing of the first shot The union men have as yet confined themselves to writing threatening letters. George W. Thompson, a prominent non union leader of the Gem mine, in reply to an inquiry, said: "I fear the worst. It looks worse than it did before the last out break, and 411 that is needed to make war is some act on either side toward hostili-' ties." TWO KILLED, SLVEBAL INJDEED. A Freight Comes In Collision With a Work Xraln Near Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 21 By a col lision between a freight train and a work ing train on the Milwaukee and Northern road, between Elkhart and Plymouth, this morning, Thomas Fitzgerald, of Depec, and Nick Single, of Elkhart, were killed. The following were injured: Fred Bowen, of Appleton: John Jacob, of Hilbert; Wni. Peal, of Green Bav: Chris Esling, of Kiel. Some of the injured will die. STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE, How It Occurred Strange tales are common, but when A. F. Stark, Penn Yali, N. T., states that 14 years, on account of nervous prostration, he was unable to write a line, but that two bottles of Dr. Miles' Bestora tlve Nervine have made him a new man, though not a young one, us he is 75 years of aze, It , does Indeed seem strange. P. W. Osborno, Peoria, III., says: "For two years I had a troublesome disease caused by oy erwork. Every day I had pain in the buck of the head, dullness, heaviness, confusion, and my back was weak. Six bottles of Div Miles' .Restorative Nervine helped me wonderfully. God be praised for the good Dr. Miles' Nerve and Liver PIUS have done me.'' Louisa Foster, CONDUCTDBS, HI Arex IfOIl, ATTENTION ! SOLOMON & RUBEN Have installed a special uniform department in their colossal business house and .are in position to "suit" and "start" you in first-class style. We want the trade of all the employes of our different traction roads, and, in order, to secure this valuable patronage, will name such prices' for Regulation Suits and Over coats as will prove a saving of at least two days' salary to each and every purchaser. Ask to see our particu larly excellent $io Uniforms and Overcoats. It will not take you long to make up your mind that you have struck a good thing, and one that cannot be matched elsewhere. Our Uniform Department com prises everything which goes under the above head ing, such as Postoftice, Military, Band, Policemen, Firemen, Hotel, Club and Railway Uniforms. Where specials are required we'll make" them tb measure at the lowest possible prices. We intend to give this department our best efforts and constant energy, so that it may speedily become renowned as the greatest uniform house in these United States. Traction Road Employes will do well to Heed the above announcement. pIoMoN"' SMITHFIELD HUHEM At OIAVtff F OC25-39 NOVEMBER" NUMBER READY. Magi cribner's contains the first of a series of illustrated articles on The World's Fair at Chicago "CHICAGO'S PART IN THE WORLD'S FAIR." By Franklin MacVeaga The Grand Canal. By Henrr James. Seventh article in the series "Great Streets of the World." With many illustrations. Conversations and Opinions ot Victor Ilnpo. From TJn- published Papers lound at Gournsey. By Octave TJzanne. Illus trated. - .. Racing In Australia. By Sidney Dickinson. With many illus trations. ,, French ArtIll. Eealistic Painting. By "W. a BrownelL Wita ' reproductions of pictures by Courbet, Cazin, Vollon, LHennltte, Beraud, Manet, etc. Stories or a Western Toivn. IV. Mother Emeritus. By Octave Thanet Illustrated by A. B. Frost Sponge and Spongers or the Florida Beer. By Kirk Munroe. With Drawings by Perard, Chapman, Bacher. Salem Hlttrldge, Theologue. His Second Excursion. By Bliss Perry. Miss Dangerlie's Roses. A story. By Thomas kelson Page. Poems, Point of View, tcf etc. Price, 25c; $3.00 a year. Attention is called to the prospectus for 1S93, which appears in this number. &&&i MJSSCIJJM wmmwmmv CHARLES SCRIBNERScSONS NEW YORK? OC25-50 PERFECT HOUSE GLEANING Don't mean simply scrubbing the floors and woodwork. Your papered walls and ceilings accumulate as much dirt as any part of the house and it can't be cleaned, at least no' one has yet made a success of that art. Any way, new wall paper is che'aper. We have wall paper in our stock made by the followingv firms: Beck, Graves, Manhatten, Campbell, Gledhill, Strahan, Nevius & Haviland, Cary, Cresswell & Washburn, Janaway & Carpender, Mairs, BartholrSmae, Wilson Fenimore, Warren Fuller, Frank ford, Yerkes, Birge, Howell, Hobbs, Empire and all the leading factories of America. We mention these-names because many dealers claim the exclu. sive control of them. These goods were all (but one) bought direct from the factories, thereby giving us our selections from each entire line. No other house in .Pittsburg has this variety. We also keep a large line of Lincrusta Walton and picture moldings; also any number of paper hangers and painters. The dealers admit our prices are the lowest. All our papers above 5c are full length. This is more than.many dealers in Pittsburg can say. We are receiving new goods (1893 patterns) and can please any fancy. We have a splendid line of special (1893 goods) -22-inch papers at 15c and any number of gold papers at 10c. Send for samples. Sent free to any address. G: a O'BRIEN, Paint and Wall Paper 292 FIFTH AVE., Three Squares from Court House. Store, OC3i LIQUORS abaetvi ai Wa u Fine book free at .Medical Co,, Slkbartt drnsi Ittd. l m fflstt or of Dr. Miles Ttt FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES. PURE OLD RYE WHISKIES Piom $1 to 1 CO per quart. CALIFORNIA PORTS, SHERRIES, Etc., At SOc a quart. . The Only Licensed Drugstore in the City. G. EISENBEJS, buccessor to II. P. Schwartz & Co., WHOLESALE AiTD ElTTAIt. DnCQQIST, 113 FEDEKAL ST., ALLEGHENY, PA, Tel. 8018. Established 1836. OClS-31-TTtU GRATEFUL COMPORTING, EPPS'S GOCOA. BREAKFAST. "By a tnorouch kaowledga of the i nitnral lairt which govern the operations of digestion and natrH 3KM Tided our breakfut tables wlthadeUcatelyflSTortd beTenirft which m&r i&tb m manr hemvr doclarfc' bills. It Is by the Judicious use of such articles of tlon. and br a careful aDDllcatlon ox tba nna croiM .i' . s. . j at-- m- . " ' s: cruet 01 wcu-Betevieu ukok. Jir. .pps uu pr until itronjr enough to resist eTCsr tendency to dl. ease. Hundreds of subtle malanes are floatlar around us ready to attack whererer tbere Is a weaE point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keep lag ourserres well fortified with pnre blood and a properly nourished frame. 'V Ctvtl txrvio$ Qa Hue, Ml only In hal water or milk. Bold DOnnd tins, by grocer, labeled thus: Made slmplr with boiling nlT In half-DOnnd tins, br i JAMES Errs & Co., Ilomceopatblo OHemliU. Jt2i-M-TUS London, EoglasjA, .J V
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