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    "ocrText": "The Same Oct.15,1893.\nLIEUT. PEARY'S LETTERS.\nthe sea from the talus of detritus which has\nof our ship for some miles was directly to-\nand the top of the talus. The lowest part of\ntumbled from the cliffs.\nward the opening between Herbert and North-\nthis glacier is not less than 800 feet above the\nJust west of the southern angle of the cape\numberland islands. The inland ice cap be-\nlevel of thesea,and a small stream flows down\nyond the glaciers in Omenak, or Murchison\nthe slope either side.\nTHE JOURNEY FROM CAPE TORK TO\nthere is an incipient glacier, deeply tinged\nSound was distinetly visible. We were now\nTHE WINTER CAMP.\nwith pink, the color being deepest at the bot-\ntom, near the water.\nThe chart of the coast from Cape York to\n{ralconHarbor and\nGeographical Peculiarities of the Coast Line\nConical Rock, further north, is erroneous in\nAnniversary Lodge\n-Errors in the Maps-Nearing the Spot\nthat it shows the coast to be convex, when\nWhere Peary's Party Spent a Year-Sall-\nreally it is concave. The main mass of Cape\nIng Into Bowdoin Bay-The Little Kock-\nYork is separated from the mainland by a sad-\ngay\nwalled Harbor on Whose Shores He is\ndie of ice cap, from which flows the first glacier\nIce Cap\nNow Living-Landing the Stores on the\nto the southwest, and the first intothe bay.\nGrassy Slope-The First Journey in the\nSTEAMING NORTH AGAIN.\nSteam Launch-Hard at Work on the\nAfter a round of views from Cape York we\ndescended and pulled out to the ship, which\nMc\nconnich\nHouse-One of the Burros Rescued Just\nBREDCLIFFE\nthe same from the Ravenons Pack of Dogs,\nthen steamed west and northwest along the\n_HOUSE\necast. About four miles west of the cape we\nVITCON HARBOR, Greenland. Aug. 5.-I desire\nsaw five kayakers Slowing down to let them\nto add a few facts to those I gave in my last let-\ncome alongside I found that one of them was\nHerbert Is\nter concerning Cape York and its surroundings.\nKookoo. As he had been one of the men who\nPatches of snow in the clefts of the rocks at and\nhelped me in the search for Verhoeff and had\nsound\nSound\nIce Cap\nWhale\nTHE NEIGHBORHOOD OF PEARY'S CAMP.\nThis map shows the position of Anniversary Lodge. in Bowdoin Bay. which is Lieut Peary's winter camp.\nAbou: sixteen miles southwest is Redeliffe, where he wintered in 1891 -92. From his present camp he can\nascend directly to theinland ice. while from Redeliffe it was necessary to haul all his stores ten miles to the\nhead of McCormick Bay before he began to ascend the slope to the ice cap. Natives are living on both sides of\nWhale Sound and on the north side of Murchison Sound.\nPEARY REACHES HIS DESTINATION\npassing a steep slope of detritus. crested by a\nrampart of vertical cliff supporting the table\nAt8A. M. on Aug 3 we entered the mouth\nland on Cape Parry. which is some 1,200 feet\nof Bowdoin Bay in Inglefleld Gulf. The bay\nabove the level of the sea. In the shadow of\nwas dotted with icebergs just as it was on\nthis rampart. which protects them from the\nAug. 4 last when Astrüp and looked down\nrays of the noon sun. heavy banks of snow re-\ninto it from the inland ice. We found a fresh\nmain throaghout the year.\nbreeze blowing out of the bay against us. but\nFrom Cape Parry looking toward the north-\nas there was no pan ice and the iceberge were\nwest the eastern end of Hakluyt Island is just\nscattered we were able easily to avoid them\nin line with and beyond the western point of\nand keep on to Anniversary Camp in the east-\nNorthumberland (contrary to the charts)\nern angle of the bay ahead. We reached the\nFrom Cape Parry also, in pleasant weather,\nlittle\nrock\n-walled\nharbor\nat\n9:30\nA.\nM.,\nand\nat\nthe bold bluffs of the Carey Islands are visible\n10 o'olock the Falcon was safely moored with-\nin a stone's throw of the rocks, aft and on\nVIEW ALONG THE SHORE.\nAt the head of the inlet on the northeast side of Bowdoin Bay, where the house was erected.\nabove high water mark along the eastern and\nbeen left in the neighborhood of Redcliffe\nsouthern faces of Cape York, and a large pateh\nHouse, I immediately asked him if he or any\non the southern end of the cape are deeply\nof the Eskimos had seen or heard anything of\ntinged with the familiar red snow.\" The\nthe missing man. He shook his head and said\nsouthward face of the cliff is nearly vertical. an\nno. Then I asked him if he would go along in\nalmost unscalable bluff, rising 1,000 to 1,100\nthe ship to the site of the new house and re-\nfeet above the sea. An easy ascent may be made.\nmain with me, as Ikwa had done the year be-\nSTONE HUTS AT NETUILUME.\nThese huls are winter habitations (Igloos). and this little settlement is on the south side of Whale Sound\nThe long. low entrance is shown through which the natives crawl into the hut, whose floor is slightly lower\nthan that of the entrance passage,\nto the west, the southern and northern ones\neither beam. and with her head pointing\nbeing more distinct than the middle ones,\nstraight down the bay. Her anehor out for-\nAbout one-third the way from the west end of\nward and a line from each quarter to the rocks\nNorthumberland Island a glacier is seen de-\nkept her perfectly firm.\nscending its southern face, and a little east of\nThe harbor is a perfect one. The anehor\nthis glacier is the Eskimo settlement of Keate,\nahead was down in fifteen fathoms.and there\nneal which rise the grand ice domes of the\nwas eight fathoms under the ship S stern.\nhighest portion of the island.\nCHOOSING A SITE FOR THE HOUSE.\nAbout half way between Capé Parry and the\nAs soon as the anchor went over I went\nnext low point to the northeast is a fair ex-\nashore with Entrikin and Astrüp to decide\nample of a glacier. the névé of which is formed\nupon the precise site of the house. so that the\nentirely of the snow which has blown from the\nstores might be landed directly in frontof it.\nI\nrampart of the cliff and has fallen there shel-\nfound the ring of stones, which had been used\ntered in the angle between the face of the cliff\nto hold when Mrs. Peary and\nFEEDING THE DOGS.\nhowever, in a steep ra vine on the east side of\nfore. At this he hesitated a while. and then\nthe cape a Yew hundred yards north of the ex-\nfinally concluded tha he could not go; so we\ntreme point.\ninvited him to call on us in the winter. said\nFrom the southeastern angle of the south\ngood-by, and steamed away.\nfacing bluff of Cane York thito the firat\nGEOGRAPHI OF The WHADB SUCND REGION.\non the west side of the bay. just east of the\nOn Aug. and 2 we steamed north along the\ncape, there are, at various points along the\ncoast, and two to five miles from it. On the\n165\nshore, some twenty or stone igloos. near-\nafternoon of the second day we were ap-\nly, if not all, of which had been inhabited dur-\nproaching the neighborhood of my camp in\ning the bast winter. There are now six tupiks\nthe winter of 1891-92. Standing guard at the\n(skin tents) and about the same number of\nsouthern entrance of Whale Sound we saw\nfamilies on the point close to the glacier. Ap-\nbold Cape Parry with its bristling. vertical\nparently all the men had kayaks, and there\nwall facing the west and northwest. Just\nwere a dosen or more dogs in the place.\nsouth of this cape is a point of low foreshore,\nOn the southern angle of the bluff there was\nand, some time before rounding Cape Parry,\none tupik, and from the ship we could see five\nthe observer, coming north, sees Hakluyt and\ndogs and a family of five-father. mother. and\nNorthumberland Island#, and the western\nthree children-sitt and standing abont\npoint of notfar from mywinter\nan open fire. tall of these places there was\ncamp. Darins the long summer days the\napparently, an abundance of food. All of these\nwater about Cape L'arry is alive with whirring\nBUILDING THE WINTER HOUSE.\nigloos and tupiks are placed upon mossy but-\nwinge and eaming; white breasts of countless\nlittle auks that brood in that neigh borhood.\ntresses of underlying rock projecting out into\nRounding the point of Cape Parry the course"
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