The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-10-15
Story of Tyo Eskimo Boys Who Accompanied
DR.. Cook as Told BY Peay-- Claims Brooklyn
Explorer Only Travelled in Circle and
Never Went Farther Than 81 Degrees
---GiUes Questions and Answers Of
the Eskimo Boys.

their dogs. seal, walrus and musk
oxen
The second boy was then called in
and the two went over the chart TO-
gothor. the second boy suggesting
some changes as noted hereafter
Finally paniEpah, the father was
again called in TO verify details Of
the portions Of The route with which
he was personally familiar
The bulk Of the boys testimony
was not taken hy Commander Peary,
nor in his presence, fact that OBJ
yiates any possible claim that they
We're awed by him
Certain questions on independent
lines from the direct narrative Of the
Eskimo boys were suggested by COM
mander Peary to some Of us, and
were put by MS to the Eskimo boys.
stnl later Commander peary asked
the Eskimo boys two or three casual
questions on minor points that had
occurred TO him
During the taking Of this testimony
II developed that Or Cook had told
these boys, as be told Mr Whitney
and Billy Prtchard the cabin boy.
that they must not tell Commander
Peary on any Of us anything about
their journey and the boys stated Or.
Cook had threatened them IL they
should tell anything
The narrative Of these Esldmos is
as follows
They, with Or. Cook Francke and
nine other Eskimos, left Anoratok,
crossed Smiths Sound to Cape Sabine.
slept IN Commander Peary's old house
in Prayer Harbor. then went through
Rice Strait 10 Buchanan Bay After
few marches Francke and three Es-
kimos returned to Anoratok
Dr. Cook. with the others then pro
eeeded up Flagler Bay, branch OF
Buchanan Bay, and crossed Elleamere
Land through the valley pass 1t the
head Of Flagler Bay. indicated by Com
mander peary in 1898 and utilized By
Sverdrup IN 1899, to the head Of Sever.
drups Bay Fiord' on the west side
Of Ellesmere Land
Their route than las out through
this ford thence north through sver.
drup's "Heuerka sound and Nansen
strait
On their way they killed musk-oxen
and bear and made caches, arriving
eventually at a point on the west side
of hansen Strait (shore Of Axel Hei
berg Land 81 sverdrup) south Of Cape
Thomas Hubbard
a cache was formed here aud he
four Eskimos did not so beyond this
point Two others Koolootingwah
and lnughito. went on one more
march with Dr Cook and the two
boys. helped 10 build the snow lgloo
then returned without sleeping
CThese two Eskimos brought back
letter from Dr Cook to i9rancke. dat
ed the 18th Of March The two men
rejoined the other four men who had
been left behind. and the six return
ed TO Anoratok arriving May 7th This
information was obtained not from the
two Eskimo boys but from the six
men who returned and from Francke
himself. and was known To as In the
summer Of 1908. when the Roosevelt
! FIRST arrived az s9tah Tile mforma
tion Is inserted here as supplement
tary 20 the narrative OF Che two boys
After sleeping az the camp where
the last two Eskimos turned back. Br
Cook and the two boys went In a north
erly or nofthwesterly direction witt
two sledges and twenty odd dogs. on,
more march. when they encountered
rough ice and = lead OF open water
They did not enter this rough Ice, nol
cross the lead. but turned westward
or southwestward short distance
and returned to Heibere Land At Z
point west Of where they had left m,
cache and where the four men hal
, turned back
Here they remained four or tlvs
sleeps, and during that time I.took.q
shoe went back 70 the oaehe and got
his gun which ne had left there. anG
Z few items of supplies
When asked why only few supplies
we're taken from the cache. the boys
replied that only a small amount oi
provisions had been used IN The few
days since they left the cache. and that
their sledges still had all they could
carry 50 that they could not taxs
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