The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-10-13
MAP SAID TO HAVE BEEN
MADE BY THEM is OFFERED
Points Out That Cooks Journey Ended About 8 |
Degrees and rs Minutes North--Then Cir
ced Back to Annatok-Five Pearyites
Sign Statement

or with the Jones Sound region, and
who has been in Commander Peary
various expeditions for some fifteen
wears, came in and indicated the same
localities and details as the two boys.
Then the first boy was brought In
again. and with pencil he traced on
the map their route, members OF ouT
party writing upon the chart where,
according to the boys statement, they
had killed deer bear. some of theii
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. Panikpah, the father, was
again called ln 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. por
IN his presence, a fact that obviates
any possible claim that they were
awed by him.
Certain questions on Independent
lines fra", the direct .narrntivn of tbs
nskInJ boys were suggested by Com
mander Peary to some of Us, and were
put by us to the Eskimo boys.
Still later, Commander Peary asked
the Eskimo boys two or three casual
questions OH minor points that had
occurred to him.
During the taking Of this testimony,
it developed that DR.. Cook had told
these boys, as he told Mr.. Whitney
and Billy rritchard, the cabin boy,
that they must not tell Commander
Peary or any of us anything about
their journey. and the boys stated
DR.. Cook had threatened them If they
should tell anything.
The narrative Of these Eskimos is
as follows:
They. with Or. Cook, Francke and
nine other Eskimos left Anoratok,
crossed Smiths Sound to Cape Sabine.
slept i'll Commander PeaTy's old house
In Payer Harbor, then went through
Rice Strait to Buchanan Bay. After
few marches Francke and three Eski-
mos returned 10 AnoTatok.
DR. Cook, with the others, then pro-
ceeded up Flager Bay, branch of
Buchanan Bay, and crossed Ellesmere
Land through the valley pass at the
head of Flagler Bay. indicated by Com
mander Peary in 1898 and utilized by
Sverdrup in 1899, to the head of Syer-
drup's Bay Fiord" on the west side
of Ellesmere Land
Their route then lay out through this
ford, thence north through Sverdrup'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
berg 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. Koolootingwah and
Inughlto, went ON one more march
with DR., Cook and the two boys, help
ed to build the snow igloo, then re-
turned without sleeping.
(These two Eskimos brought back
letter from DR.. Cook to Francke. dat
ed the 18th of March. The two men
rejoinei the other four men who had
been left behind, and the six returned
to Anoratok, arriving May 18th. This
information was obtained not from the
two Eskimo boys, but from the six
men who returned and from Francke
himself, and was known to US in the
summer of 1905 whom the RoOsepelt
first arrived at Etah. The Information
is inserted here as supplementary to
the narrative of the two boys)
After sleeping at the camp where the
| last two EsklmoS turned back, Dr.
|
| Cook and the two boys went IN a
| northerly or northwesterly direction
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with two sledces and twenty odd dogs,
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