The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-23


know It until the following day.
9. Did you know that Peary was
going to start up at that time?
A. No, I did not know.
Q. What caused you to have such
confidence In Mr.. Whitney that you
entrusted your instruments to him?
A. knew him by name. and cir
cumstances that arose while was
with him justified my confidence. I
gave him the instruments to bring
back because I thought they would be
less liable to injury on board his ves-
sci than II took them across glaciers
and rough ice-covered country.
Q. What is your opinion of the
story told by the negro Hanson Of the
Information he obtained from your
two Eskimos?
A. Well the Eskimos were bound
down by me not to tell anyone where
they had been. l should like you to
Y we Hanson here and cross-examine
ST.. ''rself. Hanson's testimony is
~ We RI. >ded on hearsay.
tosI.. et ship was CONF
why did YOU ht. for that ship
oAu CoLu0 VlToCt W a. 4OGh u6IosSN
Of going to South Greenland and SAIL
ing from there to Copenhagen?
A. I knew that the Danish govern
ment ship would get me home before
Whitney's ship.
@. What instruments did you have
with you from Cape Thomas Hubbard
and back! So
A.. sextant, artificial horizon,
three compasses, three chronometer
watches, thermometers, barometers
and pedometer.
@. What kind of sextant did you
have and how many?
A. One sextant-a French appar-
atus.
Q. What kind Of artificial horizon
did you have?
A. Glass.
@. What kind of transit or theodo-
lite did you have and how many?
A. We did not use any.
@. What kind of compass did you
have?
A. We had one liquid compass, one
surveying compass.
@. What kind Of compass did you
use to determine your compass varia-
tion!
A. Surveying compass; 1t had an
azimuth attachment.
@. What compass course did you
take from Cape Thomas Hubbard
north?
| "A. Well, that changes every day.
II you follow the course of map you
have got the compass course.
@. Was your determination Of the
pole solely by an observation Of the
suns altitude, or did you take OBJ
servatfons of the pole star twelve
hours apart, and by the determination
of the Celestial pole midway between
the two positions prove the accuracy
OF your position on the terrestrial
pole?
A. How are you going to take an
observation by the polar star when
YOU have ascontfnuons sun ? There fs
no night; you cannot have any stars;
there is no darkness.
@. What kind of observations did
you make at the pole, and how many?
and what was the altitude of the sun? ?
"A. We have told that the altitude
of the sun gave us our positions; that
Is all there is to say about It? We
made regular astronomical observa-
tions, such as would be made by the
compass and other instruments. We
merely made the nautical observa-
tions that captain would have made
aboard ship.
@. Will you describe in detail any
single observation taken by you at
the North Pole with the exact figures
Of the results and the corrections ap-
piled!
A. Not at this moment. We will
describe every one Of them in detail
when they go to the University of
Copenhagen. They will go there
within two months. The entire rec
ords will be delivered to the Univer-
sity and after that they will go to
everybody that wants to examine
them.
@. In your original narrative as
published in the New York Herald
you said:
"The night of April z was made
notable by the swinging of the sun
at midnight over the northern ice.
Our observation on April 6the placed
the camp in latitude 1886. longitude
94.2." .
The astronomers say that in the
latitude you mention the midnight
sun would have been visible on April
and that II you fully saw 1t for the
first time on April z, you must have
been 546 miles from the pole instead Of
234 as you supposed. Therefore to
have reached the pole on April 21 you
would have had to travel 80 miles
daily. What is your explanation Of
the apparent discrepancy!
| A. In the first place that indicates
the point I have taken that nobody
can pronounce judgment on matter
of this Kind until they get the COM
plete record. The northern horizon
at midnight had been SO obscure that
we could not tell whether the sun was
below the horizon or above 1t. We
were not making observations at mid
night. Therefore this statement is
based on the fact that we have said
that 1t was possible to see the sun on
midnight of that day. have not