The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-10-13

uHalo, \. Y, VINO MI mail orders, all
charges prepaid
periences In the same way that they
would talk OF any hunting trip.
To 30 more INTO details One Of
the boys was called in. and, with a
chart on the table before him, was
asked to show where he had gone
with Or. Cook. This he did. pointing
ont with his finger on the map. but
not making any marks upon il.
+ As he went out, the other boy came
IN and was asked to show whereee
had gone With Or. Cook. This he
did. also without making any marks.
and ind.lted the same route and the
same details as did the first boy.
/ When he was through, Panikpah.
the father OF i-took-a-shOo. a very
intelligent; man. who was in the party
OF Eskimos that came back from DR..
Cook from the northern end OF Nan
sens Strait, who Is familiar as a
hunter with the Jones Sound region.
and who has been in Commander
Peary's various expeditions for some
% years, came I'm and indicated the
same localities and details as the two
boys.
Then he hrst boy was brought in
again. and with a pencil he traced on
the map their route, members Of our
party writing upon the chart where,
according TO the boyls statement, they
had killed deer. bear. some OF their
dogs seal. walrus and musk-oxen.
The second boy was then called IN
and the two went over the chart to-
gether. the second boy suggesting
some changes as noted hereafter.
Finally. Panlkpah. 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 by Commander Peary,
nor In his presence. a fact that oh
viates any possible claim that they
were awed by him.
Certain questions on Independent
lines from the direct narrative OF the
Eskimo boys were suggested BY Com
inander Peary TO some OF us, and
were put by us TO the Eskimo boys.
SIN later Commander Peary asked
the Eskimo boys two or three casual
questions on minor points that had
occurred 10 him. 4
During the taking of this test-
mony. IL developed that Or. Cook had
told these boys, as he told Mr.. Whit
ney and Billy Pritchard. the cabin
boy, that they must not tell Com
mander Peary or any OF us anything
about their journey, and the boys
stated DR.. Cook had threatened them
IN they should tell anything.
The narrative Of the Esklmos is
as follows:
They. with DR.. Cook. Francke and
nine other Esklmos. left Anoratok.
crossed smiths Sound to Cape Sabine
slept in Commander Peary's old
house In Payer Harbor, then went
through Rice Strait to Buchanan Bay.
After a few marches Francke aud
three Eskimos returned to Anoratok.
Dr.. Cook. with the others. then
proceeded up Fiagler Bay. a branch
Of Buchanan Bay. and crossed Elles-
mere Land through the valley pass at
the head Of Flagler Bay, indicated by
Commander Peary In 1898, and util-
tied by sverdrup in 1899. to the head
Of Syerdrup's bay Fiord" on the
west side OF Ellesmere Land.
Their route then lay out through
this ford. thence north through Sver-
drup's "Heuerka Sound" and Manson
Strait.
On their way they killed musk
oxen and bear and made caches, ar
irving eventually at a point on the
west side of Nansen Strait (shore OF
Axel Heiberg Land OF Sverdrup).
south OF Cape Thomas Hubbard
A cache was formed here and the
four Eskimo did not go beyond this
point. Two others, Koolootingwah
and Inugnito, went on one more
march with Dr. Cook aud the two
boys. helped to build the snow igloo,
then returned without sleeping.
(Thcse two Eskimos brought back
letter from DR. Cook to Francke,
dated the l7th of March. The two
men rejolned the other four men who
had been left behind and the six re-
turned TO Anoratok. arriving May Z.
This Information was obtained not
from the Two Eskimo boys, but from
the six men who returned and from
Francke himself. and was known 10
us in the summer OF 1908 when the
Roosevelt first arrived at Etah. The
information is inserted here as sup
Elementary to the narrative of the
two boys,)