Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-12-22

world.
There took on board the Eskimos.
the pick and flower of the entire tribe.
| know every man, woman and child
in the tribe. There ] took on board
my dogs, selected especially from all
the dogs in the tribe.
There I selected articles of clothing
and other articles of equipment neces-
sary in Arctic sledges There we
killed some fifty Or sixty walrus, to
use in the journey, up to the time we
started on the last stretch OF the
journey, when pemmican would be
used
Leaving New York on the 10Th of
July, we reached Cape York on the
1st of August. I obtained my EskimUs,
my Eskimo dogs, special equipment
in the way of furs and the like; left
Etah, the most northern portion of
land, on the 18th day of August.
There was where the real battle
with the ice commenced. Tt is only
$50 miles in a straight line from
Etah, the northern point of Green
land, but that $50 miles took us from
the 18th of August to the 9Th of
| September, an incessant battle night
and day with the opposing ice foes.
On the 9Th of September we reached
my objective point, Cape Sheridan, on
J no of M
the shore of the central sea, 450
geographical miles in a straight line
to the pole itself.
!, Just a moment with another map.
which to sons of you may bring more
clearly the lay of the Northern
Hemisphere.
There in the center in white you
see the extent of the central polar
sea, with the pole itself there in the
center of the smaller circle.
Still another map, to show rs the
same thing more in detail. There
in the lower corner of the map is
Greenland, the largest of all the
island continents. 10 the left is
what makes up the Northern Arctic
archipelago. From the upper portion
! that land is directly in the center of
the start, and which is cut by the
vertical Genital line of the chart, the
green line, is called Cape Columbia,
837 degrees north latitude, the
extreme northern point OF North
America.
IF you look little to the left Of
where that narrow channel enters the
polar sea, just around the corner, as
it were you will be looking at Cape
Sheridan, which was the winter
quarters of the Roosevelt.
Just moment, before going to the
pictures let me note to you the tools,
the implements, the necessities, if
you choose to call it, for Arctic
expeditions. The first is money,
which is necessary to do anything
nowadays in this world. The next,
a specially constructed ship, strength
ened so it can escape if possible the
resistless pressure of the Arctic ice.
The next is men-and when l say
men do not mean simply the forms
of men, but | mean men with all the
| term implies. The next-Eskimos.
The next. Eskimo dogs, and so on
to the special equipment Special
sledges Special items of camp gears
and equipment. Special boats. Every
thing with the idea of the maximum
utility with the minimum weight
and bulk.
A few pictures to show our up
ward voyage. The first picture is
the midnight sun in Bafin's Bay.
Still further upwards. icebergs and
foe ice in Melville Bay.
Here Commander Peary explained
a number of pictures of icebergs and
Eskimos in different costumes.
WONDERFUL ESKIMO DOGS.
Here is an Eskimo boy with his
puppy and I think you will agree
with me in looking at that picture
that he is just as much boy as any of
your boys applause. } To me the
Eskimo dogs of this Northern land
are the most magnificent animals to
be found anywhere in the dog family.
Direct descendants of the Arctic
wolf, still they are, with kindly
treatment, as affectionate as any
ones dog here at home. There may
be other dogs in this world that can
work as hard and travel as fast as
those, when they get full rations. but
when it comes to working to the
limit. on nothing to eat, there is
nothing compares with those dogs.
Here is the picture of a battle With
the ice in the open, off Cape Sheridan.
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