Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-13

Svcrdrups "Bay Ford on the west
side of E,llesmere Land
Their route then lay out through this
ford, thence north through Sverdrup's
"Hcucrka Sound" and NanSen Strait
On their way they killed musk-oXcn
ard bear, and made caches, arriving
eventually at a point on the west SIDE
OF hansen Strait (shore of ANel Hell
borg Land of SVerdrup), south of
Cape Thomas Hubbard.
A cache was formed here and the
four Esllimos did not go beyond this
point. Two others, koolootlngwah
and Inughito, went on one more march
with DR.. Cook and the two boys help
ed to build the snow igloo, then re-
turned without sleeping.
CThese two Eskimos brought back a
letter from DR.. Cook to Francke, dated
the 18th of March. The two men re-
joined the other four men who had
been left behind ard the six returned
to Anoratok, arriving May It'll This
information Was obtained not from the
two Eskimo boys. but from The six
men who returned and from Franckc
himself, and was known to us in the
summer of 1908, when the Roosevelt
first arrived here at Etah. The in
formation is inserted here as supple
mentary to the narrative of the two
boyS)
After sleeping at the camp
where the last two Eskimos
turned back, Dr.. Cook and the
two boys went in northerly or
northwestcrIy direction with two
1II
more march, when they encoun-
tered rough ice and lead Of
open water. They did not enter
this rough ice, nor cross the lead,
but turned westward or south
westward short distance and re-
turned to Heibere Land at point
west of where they had left the
cache and where the four men
! had turned back.
Here they remained four or five
sleeps, and during that time l.
took shoe went back to the
cache and got his gun which he
had left there, and few items Of
supplies.
When asked why only a few
supplies were taken from the
cache, the boys replied that only
small amount Of provisions had
been used in the few days since
they left the cache, and that their
| sedgcs still had all they could
| carry, so that they could not take
more.
After being informed Of the
! boys narrative thus far, Com
mander Peary suggested a oeries
of questions to be put to the boys
in regard to this trip from the
land out and back to it.
These questions and answers
were as follows:
Did they cross many open leads
or much open water during this
time? Ans. None.
Did they make any caches out
on the ice? Ans. No.
Did they kill any bear or seal
while out on the ice north Of
Cape Thomas Hubbard? Ans. No.
Did they kill or lose any Of
their dogs while out on the ice?
Ans. No.
With how many sIedses did
they start? Ans. Two.
How many dogs did they have?
Ans. Did not remember exactly,
but something over twenty.
How many sedges did they
have when they got back to land?
Ans. Two.
Did they have any provisions
left on their sIedges when they
came back to land? Ans. Yes:
the sIedges still had about all
they could carry SO they were
able to take but a few things
from the cache.
From here they then went
southwest along the northwest
coast of Heiberg Land to point
indicated on the map (Sverdrup's
Cape Northwest.)
From here they went west
across the ice, which was level
and covered with snow, offering
good going, to low island which
they had seen from the shore Of
Heiberg Land at Cape Northwest.
On this island they eamped for
one sleep.
The size and position Of this
island, as drawn by the first boy,
, was criticised by the second boy