. Review of reviews and world's work . g attached to the Navy Department withthe rank of lieutenant. His wife, Mrs. Josephine Diebitsch Peary, was a resi-dent of Washington, D. C, and is a member of a well-known family of that city. She accompanied her husbandon his perilous journey, and has remained over winter atthe northern headquarters. She is probably the firstwhite woman to winter in such a high latitude. The other members of the North Greenland Expeditionwere Langdon Gibson, of Flushing, Long Island ; EivardAstrup, a young Norwegian ; Dr. F. A. Cook, of Pennsyl-vania ; John T. Verhoeif,
. Review of reviews and world's work . g attached to the Navy Department withthe rank of lieutenant. His wife, Mrs. Josephine Diebitsch Peary, was a resi-dent of Washington, D. C, and is a member of a well-known family of that city. She accompanied her husbandon his perilous journey, and has remained over winter atthe northern headquarters. She is probably the firstwhite woman to winter in such a high latitude. The other members of the North Greenland Expeditionwere Langdon Gibson, of Flushing, Long Island ; EivardAstrup, a young Norwegian ; Dr. F. A. Cook, of Pennsyl-vania ; John T. Verhoeif, of Louisville, Ky., and MatthewHensen, a young colored man who had accompaniedLieutenant Peary in his travels in Central America. Allthese members of the expedition have now returned insafety except Mr. Verhoeff, who perished, as is supposed,by falling over a precipice. The West Greenland, or the Academys Expedition, wascomposed chiefiy of a little group of young scientists—Pro-fessor Heilprin, the curator of the Academy, being the. PromDi i; te. Copyrighted. YOUNG ESKLMO GIRLS AND NATIVE HUT. THE NEW BOOKS. ;5f>D leader, with Professors B. Sharp and J. F. Holt of Phila-delphia, as zoologists. Dr. William E. Hughes as orni-thologist, Mr. Levi W. Mcngell as entomologist. Dr. W. as botanist. Dr. R. N. Keely, Jr., as surgeon, Mr. Kenealy as special correspondent, and Mr. Frazer Ash-urst of Philadelphia as an adventurous young traveler. The Kite, as we have said, left New York on Juno (5,took on coal at Sydney, Cape Breton, left that place onJune 1:3, and passed Belle Isle, headed straight forGreenland, the first sight of which was had on June 2-\.The party i)aused and visited the town of Godhavn, withits 150 inhabitants, all of whom are Eskimos except thehandful of Danish officials and their families. FromGodhv^l the Kite proceeded to Upernavik, which is inlatitude 72° 40, and is practically the farthest north ofthe settlements that are under Danish control. The
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