Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-13

bossstwere suggested byeCSmmander .Peary
totss1ipe of us, and were nut by lis to the
skim boys. ~
stfir later Commander ePary asked the
Eskimo boys @N6 or three casual questions
on. mipor pdihts' tiat had occurred TO him.
Dueing the Stalking pf0 this testimony ii
developed tha$sbr. d66kShad told these
boys 0es he t3ld Mr. Whitney and Billy
Pftehard, the cabin boy that they must
not tslLs QoapnasdeT PsaBN or .aHH>56f as
anythiHg-ebout their Journey and the
boys stated Df.tC66K fad THeatehed them
IL theyTshduld tblf Anything "
fss.' y''Narratiye Of EskGaos,
THE natF fa 'StS q ths ss, EsAA3sRpssds. as
THey,f WIN Dr. Cook, ,)ttF5RSia,cahes and nine e
other Eskirhos, left Anoratok, crossed
Smiths Sound 70 Cape Sabine. slept in.
Commander peary's old house in Payer.
Harbor, then Went through Rice Strait.
to Buchanan bay, After a few marches
FTanehe and three Eskiuos returned to
Anotatok.
DR.. Cook, with, the others, then proceeded
up Flagler bay. q branch of Buchanan bay,
and crossed Ellcsmere Land through the
valley pass at the head Of FlagleT. bay,
indicated by Commander Peary. in 1888, and
utilized by Sverdrup I'm 1899, to the head
of Sverdrup,s Bay Fiord' on the west side
OF Ellesmere Land.
Their route theb lay out. through this
ford, thence north through Sverdrup's
"Heuerka Sound" and Nansen strait,
On their way they killed musk-oxen and
bear, and made caches, arriving eventually
at a point on the west side OF hansen
strait tshore OF Axel Helberg Land of Sver-l
drupO south oftCape Thomas Hubbard.
A cache was formed here and the four
Eskimos. did not so beyond this point. Two
other Koolootingwah and InughIto, went
on one more march with Dr.. Cook and the
two boys, helped to build the snow igloo,
then returned without sleeping.
CThese two Esklmos brought back a let
ter from Dr. Cook to Franoke, dated the
nth 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 not
from the two Eskimo boys, but from the
six men who returned and from Francke
himself, and was known to us in the sum
mer OF 1908. when the Roosevelt first ar
rived at Etah. The information is inserted
here as supplementary to the narrative Of
the two boys.)
After sleeping at the camp where the last
two Eskimos turned back, DR.. Cook and
the two boys went in a northerly or north
westerly direction with two sledges and
twenty odd dogs, one more march, when
they encountered rough ice and a lead OF
open water. They did not enter this rough
ice, nor cross the lead, but turned westward
or southwestward a short distance and re-
turned 10 Heiberg Land at a point west OF
where they had left the cache and where
the four men had turned back.
Here they remained four OF five sleeps.
and during that time I-took-a-shoo went
back to the cache and got his gun which he
had left there and a few items OF sup
plies.
When asked why only a few supplies were
taken from the cache, the boys replied that
only a small amount OF provisions had
been used in the few days since they left
the cache, and that their sledges still had
all they could carry, so that they could
not take more.
After being Informed Of the boys nara
tive thus far, Commander Peary suggested
a series OF questions to be put to the boys
in regard to this trip from the land out
and back 10 II.
These questions and answers were as fol-
lows;
Did they cross many open leads OF much
open water during this time? Answer-No.
Did they make any caches out on the ice?
Answer-No.
Did they XIII any bear OF seal while out
on the Ice north Of Cape Thomas Hubbard?
Answer-No.A q
Did they khi or lose any Of their dogs
while out 90 the lces Answer-No.
With-hOw many sledges did they start?
Answer-TW0.