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S o l d b y g r o c e r s e v e r y w h e r e ! gliumnniunmniimiiiimnnmiiiiiiimfntnfUf fnnnMumfinfiffmfnirrfiniififm ■- „'A h y .A By ROGER POCOCK - £~ OF HSIIlllllllIlillllliUllllllllllilimilillilimilllllliHflllUllllilllMHIIIliillilUliiiUllllllIlK Copy rig tit by Bobbs-McrrUl Company THE CONQUEST Oc THE POLES A. D. 1911 - The North Pole is- only a point on the earth’s surface, a point which In Itself has no length, brendth or height, neither has it weight nor any sub stance, being invisible, impalpable, im movable and entirely useless. The continents of men swing at a thousand miles an hour round that point, which has no motion Beneath it an eternal Ice-field slowly drifts across the un fathomed depths of a sea that knows no light. Above, for a night of six months, the pole star marks the zenith round which the constellations swing their endless race; then for six months the low sun rolls along the sky-line on his level rounds; and each day and night are one year. The attempt to reach that point be gan in the reign of Henry VHI of Eng land, when Master John Davis sailed up the Greenland coast to a big cliff which he named after his backer, San derson’s Hope. The cliff is sheer from the sea three thousand four hundred feet high, with one sharp streak of ice from base to summit. It towers above Upernivik, the most northerly village In the world, and Is one thousand one hundred twenty-eight miles from the Pole. Jn 1504 Barentz carried the Dutch flag a little farther north but soon Hudson gave the lead back to Great Britain, and after that, for two hun dred seventy-six years the British flag unchallenged went on from victory to victory in the conquest of the North. At last in 1S82 Lieutenant Greely of the United States army beat the British by four miles at a cost of nenrly his whole expedition, which was destroyed by famine. Soon Doctor Nansen broke the Americnn record for Norway, to be beaten in turn by an Italian prince, the Duke d’Abruzzi. But meanwhile Peary, an American naval officer. Had commenced his wonderful course of twenty-three fears’ special training; and in 1900 he broke the Italian record. His way was afoot with dog-trains across the ice of the Polar sea and he would have reached the North Pole, but for wide lanes of open sea, completely barring the way. At two hundred twenty-seven miles from the Pole he was forced to retreat, and camp very near to death before he won back to bis base camp. Peary’s ship was American to the last detail of needles and thread, but the vessel was his own invention, built for ramming ice-pack. The ship’s offi cers and crew were all Newfound landers, trained from boyhood in the seal fishery of the Labrador Ice-pack. They were, alas, British, but thnt could not be helped. To make amends the exploring officers were Americans, but they were specially trained by Peary to live and travel as Eskimos, using the native dress, the dog-trains and the snow houses. Other explorers had done the same, but Peary went further, for he hired the most northerly of the Eskimo tribes, and from year to year edu cated the pick of the boys, who grew up to regard him ns a father, to obey his orders exactly, and to adopt his improvements on their native meth ods. So he bad hunting parties to store up vast supplies of meat, and skins of musk-ox, Ice-bear, reindeer, fox, seal and walrus, each for some special need in the way of clothing. He had wom en to make the clothes. He had two hundred fifty husky dogs, sleds of his own device, and Eskimo working par ties under his white officers. A glance at the map will show how Greenland, and the islands north of Canada, reach to within four hundred miles of the Pole. Between Is a chan nel lending from Baffin’s bay Into the Arctic ocean. The Roosevelt, Peary’s ship, forced a passage through that channel, then turned to the left, creep ing and dodging between the Ice-field and the coast of Grant Land. Cap tain Bartlett was in the crow’s-nest, piloting, and Peary, close below him, clung to the stunding rigging while the ship butted and charged and ham mered through the floes. Bartlett would coax and wheedle, or shout at the ship to encourage her, “Rip ’em, Teddy! Bite ’em in two! Go It’ That’s fine, my beauty! Now again! Once more!\ Who knows? In the hands of a great seaman like Bartlett a ship seems to be a living creature, and no matter what slued the Roosevelt she had a furious habit of her own, com ing to rest with her nose to the north for all the world like a compass. Her way was finally blocked just seventy- five miles short of the most northerly headland, Cape Columbia, and the stores had to be carried there for the advanced base. The winter was spent in preparation, and on March first began the dash for the Pole. No party with dog-trains cou4il pos sibly carry provisions for a return Journey of eight hundred miles. If there had been islands on the route It would have been the right thing to use them as advanced bases for a Anal rush to the Pole. But there were no islands, and it would be too risky to leave stores upon the shifting ice pack. 1There was, therefore, but one scheme possible. Doctor Goodseli marched from the coast to Camp A unloaded his stores and returned Using tlie stores at Camp A, Mr. Borup was able io march to Camp B, where’ lie unloaded and turned back. With the stores of Camp B, Professor Mar vin marched to Camp C and turned back. Witii the stores at Camp C, Cap tain Bartlett marched to Camp D and turned back. Witii the stores at Camp D, Peary had his sleds fully loaded, with a selection, besides, of the fittest men and dogs for the last lap of the journey, and above ail not too many mouths to feed. With his negro servant and four Es kimos, the leader set forth on the last one hundred thirty-three miles across the ice. It was not plain level ice like thnt of n pond, but heaved Into sharp hills caused by the pressure, with broken cliffs and labyrinthine reefs. The whole pack was drifting southward before the wind, here break ing Into mile-wide lanes of black and foggy sen, there newly frozen and utterly unsnfe. Although the sun did not set, the frost was sharp, at times twenty and thirty degrees below zero, while for the most part a cloudy sky made it impossible to take observa tions. Here great good fortune await ed Penry, for as he neared the Pole, the sky cleared, giving him brilliant sunlight. By observing the sun at fre quent intervals he was able to reck on with his Instruments until at last he found himself within five miles of ninety degrees north—the Pole. A ten-mile tramp proved he had passed the apex of the eurtli, and five miles back he made the final tests. Some where within a mile of where he stood was the exact point, tlie north end of the axis on which the earth re volves. As nenrly ns he could reckon, the very point was mnrked for that moment upon the drifting ice-fields by a berg-like hill of ice, and on this sum mit he hoisted the flag, a gift from his wife which he had carried for fifteen years, a tattered silken remnant of Old Glory. “Perhaps,\ he writes, “ it ought not to have been so, but when I knew for a certainty that I had reached the goal, there was not a thing in the world I wanted but sleep. But after I had a few hours of it, there suc ceeded a condition of mental exalta tion which made further rest impos sible. For more than a score of years that point on the earth’s surface had been the object of my every effort. To obtain It my whole being, physical, mental and moral, had been dedicated. Tlie determination to reach the Pole had become so much a part of my be ing that, strange as it may seem, I long ago ceased to think of myself save as an instrument for the attain ment of that end. . . But now I had at last succeeded in planting the flag of my country at the goal of the world’s desire. ’’ Here is the record left at the North Pole: “90 N. Lat., North Pole, “April 0th, 1909. “I have today hoisted the national ensign of the United States of Ameri ca at this place, which my observa tions indicate to be the North Polar axis of the earth, and have formally taken possession of the entire region, anu adjacent, for and In the name of the President of the United States of America. “I leave this record and United States flag in possession. “Robert E. Penry, “United States Navy.\ Before the hero of this very grand adventure returned to the world, there also arrived from the Arctic a certain Doctor Cook, an American traveler, who claimed to have reached the Pole. The Danish colony In Greenland re ceived him with Joy, the Danish Geo graphical society welcomed him with a banquet of honor, and the world rang with his triumph. Then came Com mander Peary out of the North, pro claiming that this rival was a liar. So Doctor Cook was able to strike an attitude of injured Innocence, hint ing that poor old Peary was a fraud; and the world rocked with laughter. It is perhaps ungenerous to mention such trifling points of conduct, and yet we worship heroes only when we are quite sure that our homage Is not a folly. And so wo measure Peary with the standnrd set by his one rival, Roald Amundsen, who conquered the Northwest passage, then ndded to thnt immortal triumph the conquest of the South Pole. In thni Antarctic adven ture Amundsen challenged a fine Brit ish explorer. Captain Scott. The Brit ish expedition was equipped with ev ery costly appliance wealth could fur nlsh, and local knowledge of the actu al route. The Norseman ventured In to an unknown route, scantily equipped, facing the handicap of pov erty. 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