The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-10-13
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again called in to verify details Of the
portions OF the route with which he
vas personally familiar
The bulk of the boys testimony was
not taken by Commander Peasy, nor
in his presence. a fact that Obyia es
any possible claim that they were
awed by him.
Certain questions on independent
lines from the direct narrative Of The
Eskimo boys We're suggested by Com
mander Peary TO some of US. and were
pui by us to he Eskimo boys.
Sull later Commander Peary askea
the Eskimo boys two or three casual
questions on mino. points that had
occurred to him.
During the taking OF this testimony.
i. developed thar DR.. Cook had told
these boys, as he told Mr.. Whitney
and Billy Piitehard, the cabin boy,
that they must not tell Commander
Peary or any Of us anything about
their journey, and the bows stated DR..
Cook had threatened them if they
should tell anything
The narrative of these Eskimos is
as follows
They with Dr. Cook. Francke and
nine other Esldmos, left Ano-atok.
crossed Smiths Sound to Cape Sabine,
slept in Commander Peary's old house
in Payer HarbOr. then went through
Rice strait to Buchanan Bay AT or
a few marches Francke and three Es-
kimos returned to Anoratok
Dr. Cook, with the others. then pro.
ceeded up Flagle- Bay, a branch OF
Buchanan. Bay, and crossed Elles-
mere Land Though the valley pass at
the head OF Flagler Bay, indicated by
Commander Peary in 1898, and utilis-
ed by Syerdrup in 1899. 10 the heaa
Of Syerdrup's BAY Fiord' on the west
side of Ellesmere Land
Their route then lay out through
this fiord. thence north through Sver
dTup's "Heuerka Sound and Nansen
Strait
On their way they killed musk-ox
en- and bear, and made caches, arriy-
ing eventually at a point on the west
side Of Nanacn Strait (shore Of Axel
ueiberg Land of Syerdrup). south Of
Cape Thomas Hubbard
A cache was formed here and the
four Hskimos did not go beyond this
point Two others. Koolootingwah
and Inughito. went on one more march
with Or. Cook and the two boys, help
ed o build the snow igloo, then return
ed without sleeping
(These two Eskimos brought back
letter from DR. Cook to Francke,
dated the 18th Of March. The two
men rejoined the other four men who
had been left behind. and the six re
turned 10 Anoraiok arriving Nay TIN.
This information was obtained not
from tho two Eskimo boys, but from
the six men who returned and from
Ffancke himself. aud was known TO
us In the summer OF 1908. when the
Roosevelt first arrived al E ah I e
information is inserted here as sup
Elementary to the narrative OF the
two Doysl
After sleeping al The camp where
the last two Eskimos turned back. DR.
Cook and the two boys went in a
northegiy or nofthwesterly direction
with two sledges end twenty odd dogs
one more march, when they encount
cred rough ice and a lead Of open
water They did not enter this rough
Ice, nor cross the lead, but turned
westward and sonthwestward, short
dis.anc and returned to eiberg Lane
al point west OF where they had
lcf the cache and where the four men
had turned back.
Here they remained four or five
sleeps, ana during that time ltook-a
shoe went back 90 the cache and 20
his gun which he had left there, and
a few items Of supplies.
When asked why only a few sup
plies were taken from the cache. the
boys replied that orly a small amount
Of provisions had been used in the
few days since they ieft he cache
and that their slcdges still had al
they could carry. 80 that they coulo
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