Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-13
PEARY ARRA|CNS COOK
Rival as Far North as $3.50,
His Contention.
EVIDENCE OF ESkIMOS
Physical and Mathematical 1mpos-
sibility" to Reach Pole.
ROUGH ICE AND OPEN LEADS
Accuser Declares Party Turned
Back at Cape Thomas Hubbard.
Testimony Of Natives. \
ROUGH ICE AND OPEN LEADS

NEW YORK, October l3.-The follow
ing statement Of Commander Robert e
Peary, which he submitted, together with
the accompanying map to the Peary
Arctic Club in support Of his contention
that DR.. Cook did not reach the north
pole. is now made public for the first
time
DR.. Cook. Commander Peary seeks to
prove, got no farther north than Cape
Thomas Hubbard. the northernmost point
of Axei Heiberg Land, at 81 degrees
80 minutes north latitude. Peafy- FUR
nishes the accompanying map on which
has been traced what he says was DR.,
Cooks actual route as indicated by the
Eskinros
The statement and map have been copy
righted by the Peary Arctic Club.
Entered according to act of Congress. in the
ONCE Of the fbsarIan 10Y Of Congress. at washins
ton, ID. Co.
Introduction by Commander Peary.
Some of my reasons for saying that
DR.. Cook did not go to the north pole
will be understood by those who read
the following statements of the two Es-
kimo boys who went with him and who
told me and others of my party where
he did go. Several Eskimos who started
with DIR. Cook from Anoratok in Febru-
airy, 1905 were at Ftah when i arrived
DIR. Cook had with him after they left
two Eskimo boys or young men. two
sledges and some twenty dogs. The boys
were I-took a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah. l had
known them from their childhood. One
was about eighteen and the other about
nineteen years Of age.
On my return from Cape Sheridan and
at the very first settlement I touched
tNerke. near Cape .Chalon). in August.
1909. and nine days before reaching Etah.
where DIR. Cook had been; that he had
wintered in Jones sound, and that he had
told the white men at Etah that he had
been long way north, but that the boys
who were with him, I-took-a-shoo and
Ah-pe-lah, said that this was not SO. The
Eskimos laughed at DR.. Cooks story. On
reaching Etah talked with the Eskimos
there and with the two boys and asked
them to describe Dr. Cooks journey to
members Of my party and myself. This
they did in the manner stated below.
r. f. PEARY.
Evidence Against Cook.
Signed statement OF Peary. Bartlett
Mcmillan, Borup and Henson. in regard
to testimony OF Cooks two Eskimo boys
The TWO ESKIMO boys. i-took-a-shOO and
Ah-pe-lah. who accompanied DR.. Cook
while he was away from Anoratok In 1905
and 1909. were questioned separately and
independently. and were corroborated by
Panikpah the father Of one of them
U-took-a-shoo). who was personally fa.
milar with the first third and last third
Of their journey, and who said tina,
the route for the remaining third, as
shown by them. was as described to him
by his son after his return with Dr. Cook
Notes of their statements were taken
by several of us, and no one OF US has
any doubt that they told the truth.
Their testimony was unshahen by cross.
examination. was corroborated by other
men in the tribe, and was ELECTED neither
by threats nor promises. the two boys and
their father talking of their journey and
their experiences in the same way tina,
they would talk of any hunting trip.
To go more into details: One OF the boys
was called In. and, with a chart on the
table before him. was asked TO show
where he had gone with DR.. Cook. This
he did, pointing out with his finger on
the map, but not making any mar6s
upon it,
Corroborative Accounts Given.
AS he went out the other boy came In