The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-10-13

US TO the Eskimo boys
Still later, Commander Peary asked
questions in minor points that had oc-
During the taking of his testimony.
it developed that DR.. Cook had told these
boys, as he told Mr.. Whitney and Billy
Pritchard, the cabin boy. that they must
anything about their journey, and the
boys stated DR.. Cook had threatened
them IL they should tell anything
The narrative OF these EskimoS Is as
They. with DR.. Cook, Francke and nine
Commander Peary's old house in Payer
Harbor, then went through Rice Strait
to Buchanan Bay After few marches
DR.. Cook. with the others. then pro-
chanan Bay, and crossed Ellesmere Land
through the valley pass at the head OF
Flagier. Bay, indicated by Commander
Peary in 1888, and utilized by Syerdrup
in 1899, to the head of Sverdrup's BAY
Fiord" on the west side of Ellesnnere
Their route then lay out through this
ford. thence north through SVerdrup S
''HeueTka Sound" and Nansen Strait
and bear, and made catches. arriving
eventually at q point on the west side of
Land Of Sverdrup), south Of Cape Thomas
cache was formed here and the four
Two others, Koolootingw ah and fnug-
hfto went on one more march with DR..
Cook and the two boys, helped to build
the snow tgloo, then returned without
CThese two Estinnos brought back a
the nth Of March. The two men re-
Joined the other four men who had been
left behind, and the six returned to Ano-
ratok, arriving May 7th. This informa-
ton was obtained not from the two Eski-
mo boys. but from the six men who re-
turned and from Francke himself; and
wEoG Irgsag ~ ia IN 1rTP
when the Roosevelt first arrived at Etah.
The information is inserted here as sup
plemehtary to the narrative of the two
After sleeping at the camp where the
last two Eskimos turned back, DR.. Cook
and the two boys went in northerly or
northwesterly direction with two sledges
and twenty old dogs, one more march,
when they encountered roush, lee and =. a
this rough ice, nor cross the lead, but
turned westward or southwestward
Land at point west of where they had
left the cache and where the four men
had turned back
and during the time I-tOok-a-shoo went
back to the cache and got his gun which
he had left there, and a few items OF
When asked why only few supplies
were taken from the cache, the boys re-
visions had been used in the few days
since they left the cache, and that their
So tSst f c 6G a aa aSg G0qa
After being informed of the boys mar
rative thus far, Commander Peary sug-
gested a series of questions to be put to
the boys in regard to this trip from the
land out and back to it
These questions and answers are as
Did they cross many open leads or
much open water during this time? Ans.
Did they make any caches out on the
Did they XIII any bear or seal while
out on the ice north OF Cape Thomas
Did they Kin or lose any of their dogs
while out on the ice2 Ans. No.
With how many sledges did they start?
How many dogs did they have? Ans.
Did not remember exactly but something
oveP twenty
they got back to land? Ans Two.
Did they have any provisions left on
their sledges when they came back 20
land? Ans. Yes: The sledgss stil had
able to take but few things from the
cache.
along the northwest coast OF Heiberg
t ssII Cape Northwest1. mop
From ,h here they went vest across the
snow, Offering good going, to a low island
which they had seen from the shore of
t heio sl Land nd, at Gapee f Morshwe est On
The size and position Of this island,
as drawn by the first boy, was criticised
by the second boy as being too large and
too far to the west. the second boy call
ing the attention of the first to the fact
that the position of the Island was more
Rs t IN Be 9S M'h Land fS P Noef6w Sagy
and the channel between Anund Rhymes
Land and ElIef Rhymes Land
The criticism and correction was ae-