The Rich Hill tribune., 1909-10-21

Two.
Did they have any provisions left on
their sledgos when they came back to
land2 Ans Yes. the sledFos stiil had
about all they could carry. 50 they
we're able to take but q few thlnga
from tho cache
From here they went southNest
along the northwest coast OF Heiberg
land 70 a point Indicated on the map
lsyerdrup's Cane Northwestl
From here they went west across
the Ice, which was level and covered
with snow. offering good going, 10
low island which they had seen from
the shore Of Hsiberg Land at Cape
Northwest. on this island they
camped for one sleep.
From this island they could see two
lands beyond tSverdrup's Elief Ring
mes and Amund Rhymes Lands). from
the island they Journeyed toward the
left-hand one Of these two lands
tAmund Ringes Land, passing
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 sledses, makes their at.
tainment Of the pole on the trip
north Of Cape Thomas Hubbard
physical and mathematical impoasi.
bility, as Il would demand the sub.
slsteHce Of three men and over TWEEN
~ dogs during a journey Of ten hun
dred and forty geographical miles on
less thar two sledge loads Of supplies.
" Il Is suggested that perhaps Or.
Cook got mixed and that he reached
the pole, or thought he did, between
the time Of leaving the northwest
ecast Of Relbers Land at Cape North
west, and his arrival at Rlnpnes Land,
where they killed the deer, we must
then add to tho date Of Or. Cocks lot.
ter Of March f7th, at or near Cape
Thomas Hubbard, the subsequent four
Or five sleeps at that point, and the
number Of days required 70 march
from Cape Thomas Hubbard to Cape
Northwess "a distance Of some sixty
nautical milesl, which would advance
his date Of departure from the land
70 at least the 25th Of March, and be
prepared 70 accept the claim that Dr.
Cook went from Cape Northwes,
(about latitude eighty and a half de-
grees north) TO the pole, a distance Of
FIVE hundred and seventy geographical
miles, In t~enty-ssven 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 70 the south end OF Heiberg Land.
then down through Norwegian bay,
where they secured some bears, but
not until after they had killed some al
their dogs, to the east side of era.
ham Island; then eastward 20 the lit.
tie bay marked Eds Fiord" on sver.
drup's chart; then southwest 10 Helrs
Gate and simmons peninsula.
Here for the first time during the
entire journey, except as already
noted on Cape Thomas H. Hubbard,
they encountered open water On this
point the boys were clear, emphatic.
and unshakable. They spent a good
deal OF time In this region, and finally
abandoned their dogs and one siodge,
took to their boat, crossed Hell's Cats
10 North Kent, up into Norfolk Inlet,
then back along the north coast Of
Colin Archer Peninsula 10 Cape Vera
where they obtained fresh elder duck
eggs. Here they cut the remaining
sledge OF, that is shortened Il, as Il
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. 10 the penin.
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 az the place lndi.
Gated on the chart. and were finally
HtafhNh " AAN NatA ANN a. AtAu hAHNAA
Of Jones Sound. From here they
turned back 10 Cape sparbo. where
they wintered and killed many musk.
oxen
After the sun returned Ia 1903 thsy
started. pushing their sledge. across
Jones Sound to Cape Tennyson, thence
along the coast to Clarence Head;
(passing inside Of two small islands
not shown on the chart. but drawn on
Il by the boya), where they killed a
bear; thence across the broad blight
in the coast to Cadogan Fiord; thence
around Cape Isabella and up 70 Com.
mander Pcary's old house IN Payer
Harbor near Cape Sabine. where they
found a seal cached for them BY Pan.
ikpah, I-took-a-shoo's father. From
here they crossed Smith Sound on the
ice, arriving at Anoratok.