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n and was asked to show where he ad gone with pr. Cook. This he did lso without making any marks. and ndicated the same route and the anne details as did the first boy
 When he was through. Panikpah, be father of I-took-a-shoo, very in- eIligent man. who was in the party f Fskimos that came back from Dr oolS from the northern end of Nan, en's strait, who is familiar as a hunt 1T with the Jones Sound region, and gho has been in Commander Peary's yarious expeditions for some fifteen years, came in and indicated the same localities and details as the twF$ boys,
 Then the first boy was brought in again, and with a pencil he traced or the map their route. members of our party writing upon the chart where according to the boys statement. they had killed deer. bear. some of their 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. Panilzpah, the father, was again called in to verify details of the portions of the route with which he was personally familiar.
 During the taking of this testimony it developed that Dr. Cook had tols these boys, as he told MT. Whitney and Billy Pritchard, the cabin boy that they must not tell Commands 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 ic as follows:
 They. with Dr. Cook. Francl5e and nine other Esklmos. 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 Franeke and three Eski mos returned to Anoratok.
 pr. Cook, with the others, then pro ceeded up Flagler bay, a branch ol Buchanan bay, and crossed Files. mere Land through the valley pass at the head of Flagler bay, indicated by Commander Peary in 1898, and utilized 0y Sverdrup in 1899, to the head oi Sverdrup's Bay Fiord'' on the west side of EllesTnere Land.
 Their route then lay out through this ford, thence north through Sver. drups "Heuerka Sound and Nansen strait
 On their way they killed musk oxen and bear, and made caches, arriving eventually at point on the west side of Nansen strait (shore of Axel Hci- berg Land of Sverdfup), south of Cape Thomas Hubbard
 4 cache was formed here and the four Eskimos did not go beyond this point. Two others, Koolootingwah and luEghito. went on one more march with pr. Cook and the two boys, helped to bnile the snow igloo, then returned without sleeping.
 1These two Eskilaos brought baox letter from Dr Cook 10 Francke. dated the seventeenth of March. The two men reiolned the other four men who bad been left behind. and tue six returned to Anoratok. arriving May f. This information was obtained not 1ton the two Eskimo boys, but from he six men who returned and from
 fafeRa llneelf. and was known to
 tIle summer Of 1908. when the Fts first arrived at 1tah. Tie 'aiespsaslan Is inserted here as supple.
 ntary to tie narrative of the two pAys
 After sleeping at the camp where tte izst i've Eskimos turned back, Dr. Cook ard the two boys vert is, . eFtherly or northwesterly direction Nith two sledses and twenty-oad dogs, one pr noFe march, when shet en- eounkefed rough ice and a lead .of. .opzr
 skeF They did not enter fhis rouua aNa nor cross the lead. but surnee ueas&afd or eouthMcstwara | etlnr. fstanee aud returasd 10 tielkere I.nad Rt peint wcat of wnerc trey ssaa n