The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-09-16
Intrepid Explorers Story Of the Bold
Dash by Which He Reached the
Earth''s Apex---Dr Cooks
Claim Flatly Denied.

er a little north Of our position three
years prior.
The season was further advanced than
In 1905; there was more snow on the
ground and the new ice inside the foe
bergs vas much thicker.
The work of discharging the ship was
commenced at once and rushed to COM
.pletion. The supplies and equipment we
sledged across ice n sea n deposited
on shore. A house and workshop were
built of board, covered with sails, and
fitted with stoves, and the ship was
snug for winter in shoal water, where it
touched bottom at low tide.
The settlement on the stormy shores of
the Arctic ocean was christened Hub
bardville.
Hunting parties were sent out on Sep
TENDER 10 In a bear was brought in on
the 18th n some deer a day or two
later.
PREPARE FOR sLEDGE TRIP.
On September Is the rull work of trans
ferring supplies to Cape Columbia was
iinaugurated. Marvin with DR.. Good
sail and Borup and the Eskimos. took 16
and on the 9th the, same party started
with loads to Porter bay.
The work Of hunting and transporting
supplies was prosecuted continuously by
the members Of the party and the Eski-
mos until November 5, when the sup
plies for the spring sledge trip had been
removed from winter quarters and de-
posted at various places from Cape Co
Ian to Cape Columbia.
The latter part Of September the move
ment Of the ice subjected the ship to q
pressure which listed it to port some
eight or ten degrees, and it did not re-
cover till the following spring.
On October 1 I went on a hunt with two
Eskimos across the field md Pass bay
and the peninsula, made the circuit Of
Clemants Markham inlet, and returned
to the ship in seven days with Is musk
oxen, a bear n a deer.
Later In October I repeated the trip,
obtaining five musk oxen, and hunting
parties secured some 40 deer.
SUPPLIES MOVED TO BASE.
In the February moon Bartlett went to
Cape Heela. Goodsall moved some more
supplies from Hecla to Cape Colan, and
Borup went to Markham inlet on a hunt
ing trip. On February Is Bartlett left
the Roosevelt with his division for Cape
Columbia n Parr bay.
Goodsall, Borup, Macmillan and Han
sen followed on successive days with
their provisions. Marvin returned from
Cape Columbia on February q. I Brought
up the rear on February q. f7
Thu total Of all divisions leaving the
Roosevelt was sever members Of the
party, 50 Eskimos, 40 dogs and q sledges.
MAKE READY FOR DASH.
BY February q such OF the Cape Colan
depot as was needed had been brought
up to Cape Columbia, the dogs were
rested and double rationed and 1harnessed.
and the sledges and other gear over
-Four months Of n%ortherly winds during
the fall n winter instead of souther-
sly ones, as during the previous season,
led me to expect less open water than
before. but a great deal Of rough Ice, and
/ was prepared to hew 4 road through
the Jagged ice for the first hundred miles
or 80, then cross the big lead.
BARTLETT LEADS THE WAY.
On the last day Of February Bartlett.
with his pioneer division, accomplished
this, and his division got away due
north over the ice on March /. The rest
OF the party got away on Bartlett's
trail, and I followed an hour later.
The party now comprised seven men,
bers of the expedition, II Eskimos. 1873
dogs and 10 sledges. One Eskimo and
seven dogs had gone to pieces.
A strong easterly wind, drifting
snow, n temperature in the minus
marked our departure from the camp at
Cape Columbia, which I had christened
Crane City. Rough ice in the first march
damaged several sledges and smashed
W beyond repair, the teams going back
to Columbia for other sledges in reserve
there.
PASS BRITISH RECORD.
We camped ten miles from Crane City.
The easterly wind Inc low temperature
continued. In the second march we
passed the British record made by Mark
ham in May, 1S76-82.2 0-and were stopped
by open water, which had been formed
by wind after Bartlett passed.
In this march we negotiated the lead
n reached Bartlett's third camp. Borup
had gone back from here, but missed his
way, owing to the faulting of the trail
by the movement Of the ice.
Marvin came back also for more fuel
and alcohol. The wind continued. form
ing open water all about US. At the end
of the fourth march we came upon
Bartlett. who had been stopped by a
wide lake of open water. We remained
here from March 4 to March II.
GETS GLIMPSE OF SUN,
At noon of March S the sun. red and
shaped like a football by excessed re-
Election, just raised itself above the hori-
ION for a few mute and her disan-
peared again. It was the first time I had
seen it since October /. -.
I now began to feel a good deal of
anxiety because there were no signs
Of Marvin n Borup, who should have
been there for two days.. Besides. thew
had the alcohol n oil. which were in
dispensable for, us. SO,
We concluded that they had either Loaf
the trail or were imprisoned on an 10.
Land by ope water, probably the latter.
Fortunately, on March II the lead was
practicable and, leaving a note for Mar
Vim and Borup to push on after US NV
forced marches, we proceeded northwari.
The sounding OF the lead gave Ito
fathoms. I'll -,
During this march we. crossed tha
eighty-fourthX parallel and traversed .
succession OF Just frozen leads. from 3
few h~undredayards to; a mile in width
This march was really simple. -
On the fourteenth we got free Of the
leads and came on decent going. While
we were making camp a courier from
Marvin came and informed me he was
on the march In the rear. The TEMPER
AZURE was So below zero.
The following morning, March 15. I sent
Hansen with his division north to pio-
neer a trail for five marches, and DR..
Goodsell, according to the program, start
ed back to Cape Columbia.
M'MlLLAN TURNS BACK.
At night Marvin and Borup came spin
ming in with their men and dogs steam
ing in the bitter air like a squadron of
battleships. Their arrival relieved me
of all anxiety as to our oil supply.
IN the morning I discovered that Mac
Millan's foot was badly frost bitten. h
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