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PEASANTS' WAR 155 FEBA Greenland, which was placed in the Mu- seum of Natural History in New York City. On July 3, 1898, Lieutenant Peary again sailed in the "Hope" from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Sidney, Cape Breton, and from there to Cape York, Baffin's Bay. At that place the party and stores were transferred to the "Windward." In the party with Peary were Dr. T. F. Diedrich, Jr., of New Jersey, Mathew Henson, his colored serv- ant, and Shakapsi, an Eskimo. They carried provisions for four years. In September, 1901, word was received from Peary that he had rounded the Greenland archipelago (the extreme N. land lull it broke out again early in 1525, on a more extended scale, the peasants of Al- sace, Franconia, Lorraine, the Palati- nate, and Swabia joining in the move- ment. The insurgents were defeated by the army of the Archduke Ferdinand, May 2; again at Konigshofen, June 2; and were put down after 100,000 persons had perished, in June, 1525. The Ana- baptists took part in the movement. PEAT, a deposit formed in bogs by the decay of vegetable matter, frequently consisting almost entirely of sphagnum, or bog moss. In composition it differs from coal only in the relative proportion THE "ROOSEVELT known), and reached lat. 83° 50' N. His final expedition in the ship "Roosevelt" left New York in July, 1908. He left his winter base at Cape Sheridan in February, and reached the Pole April 6, 1909, with one of his crew and four Eskimos. In 1911 Peary received the thanks of Congress and was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral. Many of the principal scientific and geographical societies of Great Britain and the Continent awarded medals to Admiral Peary for his discov- eries. He died in 1920. PEASANTS' WAR, a struggle called the "Bundschuhe," which broke out in 1502, and another, the War of Poor Con- rad, in Wurttemberg, in 1514. The peas- ants of the small towns rebelled in Swa- bia, and those of the Thurgau rose in arms in June, 1524. After a temporary of its constituents. It forms extensive deposits in various parts of northern Europe, and notably in parts of Ireland, where it is commonly known as turf. PEATTIE, ELIA WILKINSON, an American writer, bom at Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1862. In 1883 she married Robert Burns Peattie. For many years she was a reporter and writer on Chicago papers and contributed articles to many magazines. She was the author of "The Beleaguered Forest," (1901) ; "The Edge of Things," (1904) ; "The Newcomers," (1916). PEBA, Dasypus (Tatusia) peba, called also the black tatou, an armadillo ranging from Texas S. to Paraguay. The ears are large, long, and close to- gether; the head small, long, and straight ; mouth large. Scales hexagonal ;