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Title: The North Pole
Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club
Author: Robert E. Peary
Release Date: August 3, 2006 [EBook #18975]
Language: English
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THE NORTH POLE
AUSPICES OF THE PEARY
ARCTIC CLUB
BY ROBERT E. PEARY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
AND A FOREWORD BY
GILBERT H. GROSVENOR
DIRECTOR AND EDITOR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
NEW YORK
Originally published in 1910 by Frederick A. Stokes Co.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
MY WIFE
Some years ago I met at a dinner in Washington the famous Norwegian arctic explorer, Nansen, himself one of the heroes of polar adventure; and he remarked to me, "Peary is your best man; in fact I think he is on the whole the best of the men now trying to reach the Pole, and there is a good chance that he will be the one to succeed." I cannot give the exact words; but they were to the above effect; and they made a strong impression on me. I thought of them when in the summer of 1908 I, as President of the United States, went aboard Peary's ship to bid him Godspeed on the eve of what proved to be his final effort to reach the Pole. A year later, when I was camped on the northern foothills of Mt. Kenia, directly under the equator, I received by a native runner the news that he had succeeded, and that thanks to him the discovery of the North Pole was to go on the honor roll of those feats in which we take a peculiar pride because they have been performed by our fellow countrymen.
Probably few outsiders realize the well-nigh incredible toil and hardship entailed in such an achievement as Peary's; and fewer still understand how many years of careful training and preparation there must be before the feat can be even attempted with any chance of success. A "dash for the pole" can be successful only if there have been many preliminary years of painstaking, patient toil. Great physical hardihood and endurance, an iron will and unflinching courage, the power of command, the thirst for adventure, and a keen and farsighted intelligence—all these must go to the make-up of the successful arctic explorer; and these, and more than these, have gone to the make-up of the chief of successful arctic explorers, of the man who succeeded where hitherto even the best and the bravest had failed.
Commander Peary has made all dwellers in the civilized world his debtors; but, above all, we, his fellow Americans, are his debtors. He has performed one of the great feats of our time; he has won high honor for himself and for his country; and we welcome his own story of the triumph which he won in the immense solitudes of the wintry North.
The White Nile, March 12, 1910.
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
Page portrait of robert e. peary in his actual north pole costume viii stellar projection, showing the relation of the polar sea to the various continents and the route of the expedition xxxii eskimo dogs of the expedition (246 in all) on small island. etah fjord 74 captain bartlett and his party (a typical unit division of the expedition) 140 illumination of the Roosevelt in winter quarters on a moonlight night 162 a typical example of the difficulties of working sledges over a pressure ridge 240 crossing a lead on an ice cake as a ferry-boat 306
BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
Page george a. wardwell, chief engineer 16 banks scott, second engineer 16 robert a. bartlett, master 16 thomas gushue, mate 16 charles percy, steward 16 professor ross g. marvin, assistant 17 george borup, assistant 17 donald b. macmillan, assistant 17 dr. j. w. goodsell, surgeon 17 snowy owl, cape sheridan 36 brant goose 37 sabine's gull 37 red-throated diver, male and female 37 king eider, drake 37 eskimos coming off to the Roosevelt in kayaks 42 the midnight sun as seen in the whale sound region 42 eskimo in kayak 43 the ice-cliffs of hubbard glacier 52 peary distributing utensils to wives of his hunters at etah 53 deck scene on the Roosevelt 53 eskimo mother and child 60 eskimo children 61 kudlah, alias "misfortune," with puppies 61 king eskimo dog 70 the dog market at cape york 71 the whale-boat returning to the ship from the walrus hunt 71 the cape jesup grenadiers 71 hoisting a walrus to the deck of the Roosevelt 86 a narwhal killed off cape union, july, 1909. the most northerly specimen ever captured 87 captain bartlett in the crow's nest 104 tabular iceberg and floe-ice 105 the Roosevelt drying out her sails at cape sheridan, september, 1908 122 the Roosevelt on september 12, 1908, marie ahnighito peary's birthday 123 "peary" sledges on board the Roosevelt 123 view between the Roosevelt and cape columbia 136 eskimo type of sledge used on journey 137 "peary" type of sledge 137 polar bear, arranged by "frozen taxidermy" and photographed by flashlight 144 family group of peary caribou (Rangifer Pearyi), arranged by "frozen taxidermy" and photographed by flashlight 145 head of bull musk-ox killed on parry peninsula 152 herd of musk-oxen rounded up 153 weesharkoopsi and musk-ox calf 156 bear killed in clements markham inlet 156 musk-ox heads in the rigging of the Roosevelt 157 caribou heads in the rigging of the Roosevelt 157 crane city, cape columbia, at the time of departure march 1, 1909 192 face of the land ice, "glacial fringe," off cape columbia 193 pinnacle near the shore 193 typical trail in soft snow (looking backward) 208 typical view of the ice of the arctic ocean north of grant land 209 typical camp on the ice 209 working through an expanse of rough ice 216 passing through a defile in rough ice 217 approaching a lead through rough ice 224 stopped by open water 225 athletic sports at the lead camp 232 pickaxing a road through zone of rough ice 232 a characteristic view of the expedition on the march in fine weather 233 repairing sledges in camp 248 marvin taking an observation in a snow shelter 249 crossing a large lake of young ice, north of 87° 264 camp at 85° 48´ north, march 22, 1909 265 a momentary halt in the lee of a big hummock north of 88°
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