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Interesting news has reached us about Lieutenant Peary.

He left Boston in July to see if he could not establish a settlement far
to the north in Greenland, which should serve him as a base of supplies,
or a place where he could leave the main part of his baggage, and to
which he could send or return at will.

Lieutenant Peary's plan for reaching the North Pole, when he sets out in
1898, is to establish a number of Esquimau colonies at certain distances
apart, and leave supplies with each colony on which he can fall back in
case of need.

He reports that he will have no difficulty in carrying out his plan. He
met a number of old friends among the Esquimaux, all of whom were eager
to help him in his work of exploring the north of Greenland and
searching for the North Pole. He has every hope that the new trip which
he is about to undertake will be a successful one.

Lieutenant Peary reports that he is bringing with him the great Cape
York meteorite, which he intends to place in the American Museum of
Natural History in New York.

A meteorite is a fallen meteor or star, a mass of metal that has fallen
upon the earth from space. It is often called a fallen star.

From the earliest times to the present there is a record of 520
meteorites having fallen upon the earth; 142 of this number fell in the