The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1909-10-21

Thomas Hubbard.
! A cache was formed here and the
| four Eskimos did not go beyond this
point. Two others, Koolootingwah and
Inughito, went on one more march
with DR.. Cook and the two boys.
helped to build the snow igloo then
'eturned without sleeping.
After being informed of the boys
narrative thus far, Commander Pesry
suggested a series Of questions to be
put to the boys in regard to this trip
from the land out and back to IT,
The answers Of the Eskimo boys to
Commander Pesry's series Of inde
pendent questions, showing that they
killed no game, maze no caches, lost
no dogs, and returned to the land
with loaded sledoes, makes their at.
tainmert Of the pole on the trip
north Of Cape Thomas Hubbard a
physical and mathematical Impossi,
blISty as II would demand the sub
sistence Ct three men and over TWEEN.
" dogs during a journey Of ten hun
dreo and forty geographical miles on
'ess than two Siedge loads OF sup.
plies
N is suggested that perhaps Or.
Cook got mixed and that he reached
the pole, or thought he did, between
the time OF leaving the northwest
coast Of Heiherg Land at Cape North.
west, and his arrival at Ringnss Land,
where they killed the deer, we must
then add to tive date Of Or. Cooks let.
ter Of March 18th, at OF near Cape
Thomas Hubbard, the subseque ut four
or five sleeps at that point, and the
number Of days Required to march
from Cape Thomas Hubbard to Cape
Northwest "a distance OF some sixty
nautical miles). which would advance
his date of departure from the land
TO at least the 25th of March, and be
prepared TO accept the claim that Or.
Cook went from Cape Northwest
(about latitude eighty and a haif de-
erees north) to the pole, a distance Of
five hundred and seventy geographical
miles, In twenty.seVer days.
After killing the deer they went
east across the south part of Crown
Prince Gustav sea to the south
end OF Helberg Land, then down
through Norwegian bay where
they secured some bears, but
not until sfter they had killed some of
their dogs, to the east side Of Ora.
ham Island; then eastward to the lit.
tie bay marked Eds FiOrd" on Sver.
drup's chart; tlNsn southwest to, Hell's
Gate and Simmon's peninsula.
Here Ter the first time during the
entire journey, eXcept as already
noted oil Cape Thomas II. Hubbard.
they encountered open water. On this
point the boys we're clear, emphatic,
and unshakahIe. They spent a good
deal of time hn' this region. and finally
abandoned their dogs and one sledge
took to their boat, crossed Hell's Gate
to North Kent. up into Norfolk Inlet
then back along the north coast 0i
Colin Archer Peninsula to Cape Vera
where they obtained fresh elder duck
eggs, Here they cut the remaining
sledge on, that is shortened IT,, as II
was awkward tG transport with the
boat, and near here they killed a wal
rus,
From Cape Vera they went on. dowr
into the southwest angle of Jones
Sound, where they killed a seal;
thence east along the south coast o.
the sound, killing three bears at the
point noted on the map. to the PENN
sula known as Cape Sparbo on tn,
map, about midway on the south sid,
OF Jones Sound, Here they killed
SOME musk-oxen and. continuing east
killed four more az the place indi
Gated on the chart. and were finall,
stopped by the pack ice at the moutl
Of Jones Sound. From here the,
turned back to Cape Sparbo, Wher
they wintered and killed many musk
oxen.
After the sun returned In 1909 the
started, pushing their sledge, acros
Jones Sound to Cape TennysOn: theme
along the coast to Clarence Head
(passing inside of two small island
not shown on the chart. but drawn o.
II by the boys), where they killed
bear; thence across the broad bigh
III liio SooSt W O"uo5ah Pioiui luenc
around Cape Isabella and up to Con
mander Peary's old house in Paye
Harbor near Cape Sabine, where the
found a seal cached for them by PaI
ikpah, I-tooka-shoo's father. FroI
here they crossed Smith Sound on tn
ice. arriving at Anoratok.
(signe,D II. &C. PEARY. u. s.. N
ROBERT A. BARTLETT,
:, Master 8. s. Roosevelt.
ID, b MMILLAN,
GEORGE BORUP.
!, MATTHEW A. HENSON.