Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-10-28

10 not remember eXacliy, out Solnc-
thing over twenty.
How many sledges did they have
when they got back to land? Ans.
Two
Did they have any provisions left on
their sledges when they came back TO
land? Ans. Yes; the sledges still had
about all they could carry, so they
were able to take but a few things
from the cache.
From here they went southwest
along the northwest coast of Heiberg
Land to a point indicated on the map
(Sverdrups Cape Northwest).
From here they went west across
the ice, which was level and covered
with snow, offering good going, to a
low island which they had seen from
the shore of Heiberg Land at Cape
Northwest. On this island they
camped for one sleep.
From this island they could see two
lands beyond (Sverdrup's Ellef Ring
mes and Amund Ringnes Lands). From
the island they journeyed toward the
left-hand one Of these two lands
(Amund Hinges Land), passing a
small island which they did not visit.
The answers of the Eskimo boys to
Commander Peary's series Of indie
pendent questions, showing that they
killed no game, maoe no caches, lost
no dogs, and returned to the land
with loaded sIedges, makes their at
tainment of the pole on the trip
north Of Cape Thomas Hubbard a
physical and mathematical impossi.
sistence Of three mon and over TWEEN.
ty dogs during a journey Of ten hun.
dred and forty geographical miles on
less than two sIedge loads Of supplies.
II II is suggested that perhaps Dr..
Cook got mixed and that he reached
the pole, or thought he did, between
the time of leaving the northwest
coast Of Heiberg Land at Cape North.
west, and his arrival at Rhymes Land
where they killed the deer, we must
then add to the date of DR.. Cooks let.
ter OF March 18th, at or near Cape
Thomas Hubbard, the subsequent 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 miIes), 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 half dc.
grees north) to the pole, a distance OF
five hundred and seventy geographical
miles, in twenty-seven days.
After killing the deer they then trav-
eled south along the east side Of Ring
mes Land to the point indicated on the
chart, where they killed another deer
They then went east across the
south part of Crown Prince Gustav
sea TO the south end of Heiberg Land
then down through Norwegian bay
where they secured some bears, but
not until after 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; then southwest to Hell'r
Gate and Simmons peninsula.
Here for the first time during the
entire journey, except as already
noted off Cape Thomas H. Hubbard
| they encountered open water. On this
point the boys were clear, emphatic
and unshakable. They spent a good
| deal of time in 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 Of
| Colin Archer Peninsula to Cape Vera
where they obtained fresh elder duck
eggs. Here they cut the remaining
| sledge off, that is shortened 1t, as il
was awkward to transport with the
boat, and near here they killed a wal
| rus.
From Cape Vera they went on dowI
into the southwest angle of Jones
Sound, where they killed seal
thence east along the south coast o.
the sound, killing three bears at Tho
point noted on the map, to the PENN
| sula known as Cape Sparbo on the
map, about midway on the south side
| of Jones Sound. Here they killed
some musk-oxen and, continuing east
| killed four more at the place indi
| Gated on the chart, and were finally
stopped by the pack ice at the mouth
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, across
Jones Sound to Cape Tennyson; Themes
along the coast to Clarence Head
(passing inside of two small island
not shown on the chart, but drawn OF
it by the boys), where they killed |
bear; thence across the broad bigh
in the coast to Cadogan Fford; theme,
around Cape Isabella and UP to Com
mander Peary's old house In Page
Harbor near Cape Sabine, where the.
found a seal cached for them by Pan
ikpah. I-took-a-shoo's father. From
here they crossed Smith Sound on tn,