Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-10-14

subsequent four or five sleeps al
that point and the number of days
required to march from Cape Thomas
Hubbard to Cape NortlWest Ia dis
lance of some sixty nartkcal miles,
which would advance his date of de-
parture from the land TO at least the
25th of March, and be prepared 10
accept the claim that DR.. Cook went
from Cape Northwest (about latitude
eighty and a half degrees north) TO
the pole, a distance of five hundred
and seventy geographical miles, in
twenty-seven days.
After killing the deer they then
travelled south along the east side or
Ringnes Land to the point indicated
on the chart, where they killed an
other deer.
They then went east across the
south part of Crown Prince Gustav
Sea to the south end of Heiberg
Land, then down through Norwegian
Bay, where they secured some bears,
but not until after they had killed
some of their dogs, to the east side of
Graham Island; then eastward to the
little bay marked "Eid's Fford" on
Sverdrups chart; then southwest 10
Hell's Gate and Simmons Peninsula
Here for the first time during the
entire journey, except as already
noted off Cape Thomas H. Hubbard,
they encountered open water. On
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phatic and unshakable. They spent
good deal of time in this region, ana
finally abandoned their dogs ard one
sledge, took to their boat, crossed
Hell's Gate to North Kent, up into
Norfolk Inlet then back along the
north coast of Colin Archer Peninsula
to Cape Vera, where they obtained
fresh elder duck eggs. Here they cut
the remaining sledge off, that is
shortened it, as it was awkward TO
transport with the boat, and near
here they killed a walrus.
The statement in regard to the
fresh elder duck eggs permits the APP
proXimate determination of the date
at this time as about the first of
July. (This statement also serves, If
indeed anything more than the inner
ent raightforwardness and detail OF
their narrative were needed, to sub
s antiate the accuracy and truthful
ness of the boys statement. This To-
cality of Cape Vera is mentioned in
Sverdrup's narrative as the place
where during his stay in that region
he obtained elder ducks eggs.J
From Cape Vera they went on down
into the southwest angle of Jones
Sound, where they killed a seal;
thence east along the south coast or
the sound, killing three bears at the
point noted on the map, to the PENN
sula known as Cape Sparbo on the
map, about midway on the south side
of Jones Sound. Here they killed
some musk-oxen and, continuing east,
killed four more at the place indicat-
ed on the chart, and were finally
stopped by the pack ice at the mouth
of Jones Sound. From there they
turned back to Cape Sparbo, where
they wintered and killed many musk
oxen.
After the sun returned in 1909 they
started, pushing their sIedge, across
Jones Sound to Cape Tennyson;
thence along the coast to Clarence
Head (passing inside of two small
islands not shown on the chart, but
drawn on it by the boys) where they
killed a bear; thence across the
broad blight in the coast to Cadogan
FiOrd; thence around Cape Isabella
and up to Commander Peary's old
house in Payer Harbor near Cape
Sabine, where they found a seal
cached for them by Panikpah, T-took-
a-shoo's father From here they
crossed Smith Sound on the ice, ar
irving at AnoratOk.
(Signed) R. e. Peary, u. S. N.
Robert A Bartlett.
Master S. S. Roosevelt.
d. B. Mcmillan