The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-13

or any of us anything about their jour
ney, and the boys stated DR.. Cook hac
threatened them if they should tel
| anything.
The Eskimos' Story.
The narrative of these Eskimos is a.
follows:
They. with DR.. Cook, Francke anc
nine other Eskimos, 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 q
few marches Francke and three Eski-
mos returned to Anoratok.
DR.. Cook, with the others, then pro-
ceeded up Flagler bay. a branch OF
Buchanan bay, crossed Ellesmere Land
| through the valley pass at the head OF
Flagler bay, indicated by Commander
Peary in 1898. and utilized by Sverd-
ruD in 1899. to the head of Sverdrup s
"Bay Fiord'' on the west side of Files
mere Land.
Their route then lay out through
this ford, then north through Sverd-
rup'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 Nansen Strait (shore of Axel Hell
beg Land of Sverdrup), south of Cape
Thomas Hubbard.
A cache was formed here and the
four Eskimos did not go beyond this
point. Two others, Koolotingwah and
Inughito, went on one more march
ed to build the snow igloo, then return
ed without slee ping.
(These two Eskimos brought back q
letter from DR.. Cook to Francke, dated
Joined the other four men who had been
left behind, and the six returned tic
Anoratok, arriving May Z. This in
formation was obtained not from the
two Eskimo boys. but from the six men
who returned and from Francke him
self and was known to US in the sum-
mer of 1908, when the Roosevelt first
arrived at Etah. The Information is
inserted here as supplementary to the
narrative of the two boYs.)
experimenting Story.
After sleeping at the camp where the
last two EskimoS turned back, DR.. COOK
and the two boys went in a northerly
or nortbwesterly direction with two
sledges and 20 odd dogs, one more
march, when they encountered rough
ice and lead of open water. They
did not enter this rough ice, nor cross
the lead, but turned westward or south
westward a short distance and return
ed to Heiberg Land at a point west
of where they had left the cache and
where the four men had turned back
Here they remained four or five sleeps,
and during that time I-took-a-shoo
went back to the cache and got his
gun which he had left there, and a
few items of supplies.
When asked why only few supplies
were taken from the cache, the boys re-
Piled that only small amount of pro-
visions had been used in the few days
since they left the cache, and that their
sledges still had all they could carry,
30 that they could not take more.
After being informed of the boys
narrative thus far. Commander Peary
a series of question to be
,ut to the boys in regard to this trip
rom the land out and back to it.
Questions and Answers.
These questions and answers were as
olloWs:
Did they cross many open leads or
much open water during this time?
ms. None.
Did they make any caches out on the
ce? Ans. No
Did they kill any bear or seal while |
ut on the ice north of Cape Thomas
hubbard? Ans. No.
Did they kill or lose any of their |
ogs while out on the ice? Ans. No.
With how many sledges did they
tart? Ans. Two.
How many dogs did they have? Ans |