The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-13

nautical milesl hich would advance
his dates 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 geograph-
ical miles in twenty-seven days.
Boys Continue Their Story
After killing the deer they then ira
yeled south along the east side of
Ringnes Land TO the point indicated
on the chart, where they killed an
other 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
nam Island; then eastward to the
little bay marked Eds Fiord' on
Sverdrup's chart: then southwest to
Hell's Gate and Simmons Peninsula.
Here for the first time during the
entire journey except as already no
ted off Cape Thomas H. Hubbard they
encountered open water On this
point the boys we're 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 Hell's Gate
to North Kent, up the Norfolk Inlet,
then back along the north coast of Co
lin Archer Peninsula to Cape Vera,
eggs. Here they cut the remaining
sledge off; that is, shortened it, as it
was awkward to transport with the
boat, and near here they killed a wal
rus.
The statement in regard to the
fresh elder duck eggs permits the ap-
proximate determination of the date
at this time as about the first of July
(This statement also serves if indeed
anything more than the inherent
straightforardness and detail of their
narrative were needed, to substanti-
ate the accuracy and truthfulness of
the boys statement. This locality of
Cape Vera is mentioned in Sverdrup's
narrative as the place where during
his stay in that region, he obtained
elder ducks eggs)
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 indica-
ted on the chart, and were finally stop |
ped by the pack ice at the mouth of
Jones Sound. From there they turn
ed 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 (passng inside of two small is
lands not shown on the chart, but
drawn on it 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
Commander Peary's old house in
Payne Harbor near Cape Sabine
where they found a seal cached for
them by Panikpah, I-took-a-shoo's
father. From here they crossed Smith
Sound on the ice arriving at Anoratok.
(Signed)
r. e. PEARY, u. S. n.
ROBERT A. BARTLETT,
Master S. S. Roosevelt
ID. B. MCMILLAN,
GEORGE BORUP,
MATTHEW A. HENSON.