The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-13
ANTI-COOK
DOPE IS OUT
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us has any doubt that they told the
truth.
Their testimony was mistaken by
cross examination. was corroborated
by other men in the tribe, and was
ELECTED neither by threats nor prom
ises. the two boys and their father
talking of their journey and their ex-
periences in the same way that they
would talk Of any hunting trip.
To go into more details: One of
the boys was called in, and. with a
chart on the table before him, was
asked 10 show where he had gone with
DR.. Cook This he did. pointing out
with his finger on the map. but not
making any marks upon 1T.
AS he went out. the other boy came
in and was asked 70 show where he
had gone with Dr.. Cook This he did,
also without making any marks, and
indicated the same route and the
same details as did the first bog.
When he was through, PanfAxpah,
the father of I-toox- shoe, q very
intelligent man, who was In the party
Of Eskimos that came back from DIR.
Cook from the northern end of Nam
sens Strait, who LIS familiar a. a
hunter with the Jones Sound region.
and who has been in Commander
PeaTy's various expeditions for some
hftesn years, came in ana indicated
the same localities and details as the
two boys
Then the first boy was brought in
again, and with a pencil he traced on
Nesr
party writing upon the chart whsre.
according to the boys statement, they
had killed deer, bear. some of their
dogs. seal, wahus and musk-oxen.
The second boy was then called in
and the two went over the chart to-
gether, the second boy suggesting
some changes as noted hereafter.
Finally, Panikpah, the father, was
again called in to verify details of the
portions Of the route with which he
was personally familiar
The bulk of the boys testimony was
not taken by Commander Peary. nor in
his presence. a fact that obviates any
possible claim that they were awed
by him
Certain questions on independent
lines from the direct narrative of the
Eskimo boys were suggested by Com
mander Peary to some of us, and were
put by us to the Eskimo boym.
Still later, Commander Peary asked
the Eskimo boys two or three casual
questions on minor points that had
occurred to him.
Cook Threatened Them.
During the taking Of this testimony
Il developed that DR.. Cook had told
these boys, as he told Mr.. whitney
and Billy Pritchard. the cabin boy.
that they must not tell Commander
Peary or any of us anything about
their journey and the boy stated DR..
Cook had threatened them If they
should tell anything.
The narrative Of these Eskfnos is
as follows:
They. with Or. Cook. Francke. and
nine either Eskimos, left Anoratol
crossed Smiths Sound to Cape Sabine.
slept in Commander Peary's old house
In Payer harbor. then went through
Rice strait TO Buchanan Bay. After
q few marches Francke and three Es-
KINDS returned to Anoratok.
Or. Cook. with the others, then pro-
ceeded up F'lagler Bag. branch OF
Buchanan Bay and crossed ElIesmore
Land through the valley pass at the
head or F'laRIer Bay, indicated BY
Commander Peary IN 1898, and utilix-
ed by syerdrup In 1893, to the head OF
syerdrup's Fay Fiord" on the west
side Of Ellesmore Land.
Their route then lay ont through
this ford. thence north through Sver-