The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-22

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no not remember exactly, but some
thing over twenty.
How many sledges did they nave
when they got back to land7 Ans.
Two.
Did they have any provisions left on
their sledges when they came back 70
land? Ans. Yes; the sledges still had
about all they could carry, so they
were able to take but few things
from the cache.
From here they went southwest
along the northwest coast OF Heiberg
Land to point indicated on the map
(Syerdrup'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
camped for one sleep.
From this island they could see two
lands beyond (sverdrup's Elief Ring
mes and Amund Rhymes Lands). From
the island they journeyed toward the
Ieft-hand one Of these two lands
(Amund Hinges Land, passing a
small island which they did not visit.
The answers Of the Eskimo boys to
Commander Peary's series Of inde-
pendent questions, showing that they
killed no game, made no caches, lost
no dogs, and returned to the land
with loaded sledges, makes their at
tainment of the pole on the trip
north of Cape Thomas Hubbard a
physical and mathematical imposed.
bility, as it would demand the sub.
sistence Of three men and over TWEEN
ty dogs during a journey of ten hum
bred and forty geographical miles on
less than two sledee loads OF supplies.
II 1t is suggested that perhaps DR..
Cook got mixed and that he reached
the pole, or thought he did, between
the time of leaving the northwest
coast of Helberg Land at Cape North.
west, and his arrival at Rhymes Land,
where they killed the deer, we must
then add to the date Of Or. Cooks let.
ter of March 18th, at or near Cape
Thomas Hubbard, the subsequent four
or five sleeps at that point, and the
number of days required to march
! from Cape Thomas Hubbard to Cape
| Northwest "a distance of some sixty
nautical miIes), which would advance
his date Of departure from the land
to at least the 25th of March, and be
| prepared to accept the claim that DR.,
/ Cook went from Cape Northwest
| (about latitude eighty and half de-
grees north) to the pole, distance Of
five hundred and seventy geographical
miles, in twenty-seVen days.
After killing the deer they then trav.
eled south along the east side of Ring,
mes Land to the point indicated on the
chart, where they killed another deer.
They then went east across the
south part of Crown Prince Gustav
sea to the south end of Heiberg Land,
then down through Norwegian bay,
where they secured some bears, but
not until after they had killed some OF
their dogs, to the east side of Ora.
ham Island; then eastward to the lit.
tie bay marked "Eid's Ford on Sver.
drup's chart; then southwest to HelPs
Gate and Simmons peninsula.
Here for the first time during the
entire journey, except as already
noted off Cape Thomas H. Hubbard
they encountered open water. On this
point the boys were clear, emphatic
and unshakable. They spent good
deal of time in this region, and finally
abandoned their dogs and one sledge
took to their boat, crossed HelIs Gate
to North Kent, up into Norfolk Inlet
then back along the north coast OF
Colin Archer Peninsula to Cape Vera,
where they obtained fresh elder duck
eggs. Here they cut the remaining
sledge off, that is shortened it, as ii
was awkward to transport with the
boat, and near here they killed a wal.
rus.
From Cape Vera they went on down
into the southwest angle of Jones
Sound, where they killed a seal;
thence east along the south coast of
the sound, killing three bears at the
point noted on the map, to the PENN.
sula known as Cape Sparbo on the
map, about midway on the south side
of Jones Sound. Here they killed
some musk-oxen and, continuing east,
killed four more at the place indi.
Gated on the chart, and were finally
stopped by the pack ice at the mouth
Of Jones Sound. From here they
turned back to Cape Sparbo, where
they wintered and killed many musk.
oxen.
After the sun returned in 1909 they
started, pushing their sledge, across
Jones Sound to Cape Tennyson: thence
along the coast to Clarence Head :
tpassing inside of two small islands
not shown on the chart, but drawn on
1t by the boys), where they killed a
bear; thence across the broad blight
in the coast to Cadogan Ford; thence
around Cape Isabella and up to Com.
mander Peary's old house in PAYER
Harbor near Cape Sabine, where they
found a seal cached for them by Pan.
ikpah, l-took-a-shoo's father. From
here they crossed Smith Sound ON the
ice, arriving at Anoratok.
! (Signed) r. Z. PEARY, U. 8. N.
ROBERT A. BARTLETT.
Master s. S. Roosevelt.
D. B. M'MILLAN,
GEORGE BoRUP,
| MATTHEW A. HENSON.