Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-10-14

and bear, and made caches, arriving
eventually at a.DointOn the vest side
Of NanseI strait ishofs Of Axef Hell
berg Land Of Sverdrup)s south Of
Cape Thomas Hubbard.
A cache was formed here and the
four Eskimos did not 60 beyond this
point. Two others, Koolootlngwah and
Inughito, went on one more march
with DR.. Cook and the two boys,
helped to build the snow igloo, then
returned without sleeping.
(These two Eskimos brought back
a letter from DR.. Cook to Francke.
dated the seventeenth Of March. The
two men rejoined the other four men
who had been left behind, and the six
returned to Anoratok, arriving May Z.
This information was obtained mot
from the two Eskimo boys. but from
the six men who returned and from
Francke himself, and was known to
us in the summer Of 1908. when the
Roosevelt first arrived at Etah. The
information IL inserted here as supple
mentary to the narrative Of the two
boys.)
After sleeping at the camp where
the last two EskImos turned back, Or.
Cook and the two boys went In =
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WY" WV s'euSss ~ 49, ~"
one or "oro ".'e 49, ~
cOente'cu rouS" ~ 80. -. ~ ~ 49,, ~.
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'se' nv o'ooo INTERESTINGLY .....
westward Or sOu.n~e.s~ IN. ~
o.'.Ano. a"u .e'u," 49, 49,. :. = 10.
- PV' ~. - :. 80" ~ a.. ,.sm ~
tne caSne snu ""s'o wv ''N w w
'"r IVY. 0a 49,. ,n,o.n.d ~ me bovs,
s.'.,. ...,'. o.. ;corn,.ardar paarv
"sIs 800. ~ n,,sstIor. - 4.
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~ = ~ ~ 80 h..k - /,
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1S'".
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Did they make any eaches OUT on
the Ieef Ans. No.
Did they kill any bear or sea- wn'le
out on the Ice north OF Cape Thomas
hubbard7 Ans. No.
Did they Kill or Iose any OF the'r
dogs while out on the neef Ans. NO.
with how many sIedSes dld sney
Startf Ans. TWO.
How many dogs d'o tney neVeI Ans
Did not remember exaes'y' Ous sons
thing over twenty
How many SIedses dln tney navs
when they got BACK 70 'anot Ans.
TWO .... 80.
Did they have any provisions leit o.
their sIedGes when they came BACK 20
Iand2 Ans. Yes; the sledses stlIl naa
about all they could carry 50 they
were able 70 take Dus . rev '"'"Ss
from tne eaene. .,5, Va. 4
from mere !nsy wen. s0u.nwss'
along me norsnwesv eoss' " ne'DeTV
lana 70 poInt lnclca.su On tns "SP
(sverdrups cape NortnWestl'
FROM mere tney "ens wcst Aer0s.
tne ice' WHICH was 'Svs' anu o0ye'Su
WY" snow v"e."s w. @ 49,
low '.'anu wn'on wv neu 80" O
sns snore " 1e'DS'S ~s"u " Nv
"Or'"wes. =" WIS '
camPeu ~ O"e M
the size ana position OF tn's 's'Anu'
40 drawn py the nrst DoN was CRUZ
clssd by the second poy a. 0ein0 700
large and too tar 70 the west, Sne sec
ono boy calling the attens'on OF tne
Hrst 70 the fact snat tne posi.'on 81
the island was more nearly N iIne
with the point where they NAG zen
Hslberg Land lCape Mersnwssv ana
the channel between Anuna h'nsnes
Land. and Ellet Rlnsnes Land
This erltlcIsm and correction was
accepted by the frat boy who started
70 change the position Of the lslancr
but was stopped 40 Commander. Peary
had given instructions that no ehanges
or srasures were 70 be made IN the
route 40 drawn by the Esklmos on the