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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30TH, 1905.

COOK'S DASH FOR THE NORTH POLE.

THE FINAL STAGES.

shelter..hough the temporuture was still very low. The silk tent was presset into service, and the change proved agreeable. It onconreged more osrefa! serutiny of the strange world into which fato had pressed us. Bigns of land were still seen every day, but they were deceptive The following is the full text of the descrip- illusions or a mere verdict of fancy. It seemed tion of the journey to the North Polo tele-that something must cross the horizon to mark graphed to the New York Harald" by Dr. the ares into which we were pushing, When Cook from Lerwick, Bhetland-

colour to dancing horizons. Mirages turned things topsy-turvy; inverted mountains and the mu was low we ran over moving plains of queer objeds even rose and fell in shroads of mystory, but all of this was due to the atmos phoric magic of the midnight sun.

front, we have at last, succeeded in reaching the After a prolonged fight against famine and North Pole. A new highway, with an interest ing strip of animated nature, has been explored, Big game haunts were located which will delight sportsmen and extend the Eskimo horizou. Land has been discovered upon which A resta the earth's northernmost rocks. triangle of 30,000 square miles has been cut out

of the terrestrial unknown.

centre.

Blowly but surely we neared the tura..

Good Batronomical observa ing point. tions were daily scoured to fix the ad of vanding stages. They steadily improvell, but still there was the dsprossing monotony the scene, and life had no pleasures, un spiritual recreations, nothing to relieve the steady physical drag of chronic fatigue. But there came an end to this na to all things.

THE POLE AT LAST.

On 21st April, the first corrected altitude of the sun gATR 89 degrees 59 mins. 46 wees. The Pole, therefore, was in sight. We advanced 14 Becs., made supplementary observations, and prepared to stop long enough to permit a double round of observations. Etakishook and Ahwelsh were told that wo had reached Big Naic, and dance of they sought to celebrate it by a savagery. At last we had pierced boree date breezes of the North Pole. It was 21st April, and the flag had been raised to the coveted 1908. The gay indicated local soun, but the time was a negative problem, for hero all With a step it was possible. meridias mest.

The expedition was the outcome of a summer cruise in Arctic sens. The yacht Bradley arrived at the limits of navigation in Smith's Bound late in August, 1907. Here the conditions were found favourable to launch a venture for the Polo, John E. Bradley liberally supplied from the yacht suitable provisions for local use. My own equipment for emergency served wall for every purpose of travel Many Eskimos had gathered on Greenland shores at Ammontok for winter bear hunting. Immense catches of meat had been gathered, and about the camp were plenty of streng dogs. The combination was lucky, for there was good material for equipment, export help, efficient motor force, and all else that was required, conveniently arranged at a post only 700 miles from the Doreal A house and workshop were built of packing boxes, and the willing hands of this northernmost tribe of 250 people were set suitable outflt. to the problem of devising a Before the end of the long winter night we were ready for the enterprise, Plans were matured [907 to force a new route over Grinnell Land, and northward along its west cost out on to the Polar Ses Soon after the Polaroidnight a few scouting parties word campaign opened,

Though overjoyed with the success sent over to the American shores to explore a way and to wosk game hunts. Their missionquest, our spirits began to descend on the was only partly successful, because storms following day. After all observations had been taken with a careful steily of local conditions, a darkered the January noon.

sense of intense loneliness came with further seratiur of the horizon. What a cheerless.spot to have aroused the ambition of man for so many ages Endless Belds of purple mow? No life, no spot to relieve the monotony of frost. We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice!

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EMBARKING FOR THE FOLE.

to go from one part of the globe to the opposite side, from the hour of midnight to that of midday. The latitude was 90 degrees, the temperature 38 degrees, the barometer 29,83. North, oast, and west had vanished. It was south in erory direction. But the compass, pointing to the magnetic pois, was as useful as of pon-

ever

THE RETURN JOURNEY We turned our backs to the Pole, on 23rd April, and began the long return march. Caanting on a continued easterly drift, our conrio was forced further west. With fair weather, good ise, and the inspiration of home, long distances were at first quickly coverxl.

Below the 87th parallel the character of the ice changed very much, and it became evident that the season was advancing rapidly. With a good deal of anxiety we watched the daily It now became reduction of the food supply. evident that the crucial stage of the campaign was to be transferred from the taking of the Pole to a final battle for life against famine and frost. The clear blue of the skies changed to a steady dismal grey and several days of loy despair followed each other in rapid suocession. There were some violent gales, but usually the wind did not rise to the full force of a storm, With starvation as the only alternative, we could not wait for better weather. Some advance was made nearly every day, but at the cost of desperate effort, which pressed life to the

At sunrise of 9th February, 1908, the main expedition embarked for the Pole. Eleven men and 103 dogs, drawing 11 heavily loaded sledges, left the Greenland shore and pushed wastward over the troubled ice of Smith's Bound. The gloom of the long night was relieved by only a few hours of daylight. The chill of winter was felt al its worst as we crossed the heights of Ellesmero Bound to the Pacific slopes. The temperature sank to 117 degress below zero Fahrenheit. Several dogs wore frozen, and the men suffered severely; bat we soon found game trails, along which an easy way was fores through Nansen Sound to the land's end. In this merch were secured 101 musk ozen, seren bears, and 335 hares. We pushed out into the Polar Sea from the southern point of Holberg Island. On 18th March six Eskimos returned from here with foar men and 45 dogs, moving supplies for 80 days. The crossing of the circumpolar pack was begun three days later. Two other Eskimos, forming the last supporting party, returned, and trials had now boan reduced by the survival of the fittest. he two best men and 26 dogs were picked for the final.

There was before us an unknown line of 460 miles to our goal. The first days provided long marches and encouraging progress. The big lead which separated the land ico from the central was crossed with little delay. Low tomperature and persistent winds made life avargs of extinction. torture; but, cooped in snow houses, eating dried beef and tallow, and drinking hot tea, some animal comfort was occasionally to be gained. For several days after sight of known load was lost the overcast sky prevented au securate determination of positions. On 30th March partly cleared of smoky the horizon was agitation, and over the western mist new Observations gave our land was discovered. position as latitude 84 degrees 47 mins, longitude 86 degrees 36 mins. The urgent nerd of rapid advance on our main mission did not permit a detour to explore the const, where were seen the leat signs of solid earth. Rayond nothing stable, and even on scaling was nothing to mark terrestrial polar solidity. We advanced steadily over the monotony of a moving sea

of ice.

NO SIGN OF LIFE.

We now found ourselves beyond the range of life, Neither footprints of bears nor plowholes of seals were detectef Even microscopie èreatures of thedeep were no longeranderus. Themadden- ing influence of the shifting ise desert and of the frost became almost unendurable. In the daily routine the surface of the pack offered less and lass trouble. The weather improvod, but thiore atall remained a light life sapping wind, which drove despair to its lowest recess. Under the lash of duty, however, interest was forced, while the merciless drive of extreme cold enforced physical action. Thus, day after day, weary lega spread over big distances, incidents and positions were recorded, but adventure was promptly forgotten in the mental bleach of the next day's effort.

The night of 7th April was made notable by the swing of the sun at midnight over the northern ice, Sunburns and frostbites were now recorded on the same day, but double lays of glitter infused quite an incentive into one's life of shivers, Observations on 8th April placed the camp at latitude 86 degrees 36 BECS: longitada 94 degrees 2 secs.

On 24th May the sky cleared long enough to give as a set of observations. We had reached the 84th parallel, near 97th movi disu. The ice was mach broken, and we drifted eastward, leaving many open spacea ef water. There remained on our sledges scarcely enough food to enable us to reach our caches on Nansen Sound, unless we averaged 15 miles daily. With ovor-roduced strength we were hardly equal to 10 miles daily. Trying to make the best of our hard lot, a straight course was sot for musk ox lands. Crossing the 83rd parallel wo found ourselves to the west of a farge tract ortending southwards, The ice chaiged to amall fields: the temperature rose to zero; and a persistent mist obscured the heavens, The events of the following days were pressed into a register of a life of suffering. Food for man and dog was reduced to a three-quarter ration, while the difficulties of ice-travel rose to disheartening heights.

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of trouble, With the return to Annotook rendered diffoult, with the unfortunate westerly drift, wo now sought to follow the ice movement south to Lancaster Sound, where we hoped to reach a Scottish whaler oarly in July. Further southward progress became impossible and in quest of food we crossed Firth Devon into Jones's Sound. Dogs were here given the free on of their wolfish propensitics. By folding host and aledge we tried to reach Baffin's Bay, with but an occasional bird to eat and a long line of misfortune, we pushed eastward until the front of early September stopped progress. In spite of With neither food nor ammunition we were what seemed like long marphes, we had advaas- forced to wrestle for winter supplies from ed but littls over 100 miles in a nine days what seemed at first live a lifeloss desert. march. Much of our hard work was lost in Pressed by hunger, new implements were circuitons twists around troublesome pressure shaped, Cape Sparto was picked as a likely line, and high, regular felds of very old ice-spot to find life, and gams was located. drift, too, were driving eastward with sufficient With bow and arrow, line, lance, and knife fores to give some anxiety,

musk ox, bear, and wolves yielded meat, skins, and fat. Au underground den was prepared, and in it we remained until the sunrise of 1909. On February 18, a start was made for Annatook with newly-prepared equipment. Greenland shares were reached on 15th April, Here wo were greeted by Harry Whitney, and an Anziona group of Eskimos, and friends, To facilitate an early return we moved southward

Though still equal to about 15 miles daily, the extended marches and long hours of travel ling, with which fortune had favoured us ear.

We were no lier, were no longer possible.

The sledge. about 200 miles from the Pole loads were reduced Oue dog after another had got into the stomachs of hie hungry survivors natil the teams wore considerably reduced, but there seemed to remain a sufficient balance of to the Danish settlement and reached Upernvik man and brute to push along into the boart of the mystery to which we had set ourselves."

BETTER TRAVELLING,

Beyond the 86th parallel the ice fields became more extensive and heavier, the crevasses fewer and leg troublesome, with little or no crushed Ice thrown up as barrier: From the 67th to the 88th parallel much of the surface was an indica pion of land ice. For two days we travelled over ice which resetabled a glacial surface. The nsual sea-ice lines of demarcation were absent, and there were no hummocks or deep crevassos, There were, however, no perceptible elevations, and no positive signs of-land or sea. Observs- tions on the 14th gavo latitude 88.21, longi- tade 95.52:

We were now less than 100 miles from the Pole. The pack was here more active, but the temperature remained below 40 degrees. Young ice spread narrow spaces of open water so rspilly that little delay was caused in crossing from one field to another.

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