Heroes of discovery in America . artiesupon which the final work depended. Here the Roosevelt was laid up in September, 1908, to awaitthe proper season for departure in the following winter spent there was occupied in collecting foodfor the enterprise and in other duties, and on the 15thof February, 1909, Captain Bartlett, master of the Roosevelt, set out on the pioneer sledge journeynorth, with a party of Eskimos and other members ofthe expedition. Peary followed on the morning ofFebruary 22—Washingtons Birthday—with two ofthe younger Eskimos and sixteen dogs Other partiesset out at
Heroes of discovery in America . artiesupon which the final work depended. Here the Roosevelt was laid up in September, 1908, to awaitthe proper season for departure in the following winter spent there was occupied in collecting foodfor the enterprise and in other duties, and on the 15thof February, 1909, Captain Bartlett, master of the Roosevelt, set out on the pioneer sledge journeynorth, with a party of Eskimos and other members ofthe expedition. Peary followed on the morning ofFebruary 22—Washingtons Birthday—with two ofthe younger Eskimos and sixteen dogs Other partiesset out at different dates, there being in the northwardgroup seven members of the, expedition, nineteenEskimos, twenty-eight sledges and one hundred andforty dogs. These were to meet at Cape Columbia onthe last day of February, the trail to this point havingbeen kept open during the autumn and winter by hunt-ing parties and supply trains. On March 1 Peary began his long journey fromCape Columbia over the Arctic ice, two other parties,. JlgfjfHP ! liSrP1*^ ROOSEVELT AGAINST THE EDGE OF THE UNBROKEN ICE FLOES Note the lines of the Roosevelt, the shapely raking stem, the slender polemasts, the elliptical smokestack, and the crows nest at the mast head IN AMERICA 347 led by Bartlett and Borup, other members of the expe-dition, having set out the day before. An hour aftercamp was left Pearys division crossed the glacialfringe. The entire expedition had now left landbehind and was at last on the ice of the Arctic Oceanat about 83 ° north latitude. This start was made eightdays earlier than that made three years before by the1905-1906 expedition, and took place from a pointfurther north. What lay before the adventurers theydid not know; whether they would find continuousice, or possibly meet with islands on which no humanfoot had ever set. They were utterly in the realm ofthe unknown, with the Pole for their final quarry. One thing was soon made evident. The ocean theywere crossing wa
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