Commander Peary's long telegram from Labrador, repro- duced from the
New York Herald in Thursday's Times, gives a vivid account of his Arctic experiences during the past' twelvemonth. The northward voyage was dangerous and difficult, and his sledge trip towards the Pole in February was imperilled by gales, open "leads," and his consequent inability to count on his supporting parties. The "furthest north" was reached on April 21st, when Commander Peary realised that he had "cut his margin as narrow as could be expected," and reluctantly decided to retrace his steps. The journey back to the 'Roosevelt' was marked by great privations, and reached its climax on the fifth day when the party crossed young ice on snowshoes : "the thin film crusting the black water bent and yielded beneath us, sending indulations in every direction," and for the next week or more they had to cut their way slowly through shattered ice, reaching the foot of the Greenland coast on May 12th. The return voyage in the 'Roosevelt' began on July 31st, and was delayed first by ice and later on by a succession of violent storms which threatened total shipwreck, but in the end Labrador was safely reached on 'October 13th. .
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