The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-13

OF Ul0 uTSC 10 Tie ldCJ tudL lu6 pOSi-
ton of the island was more nearly
in line with the point where they
had left Heibergland (Cape North
west) and the channel between
Amund Ringnes Land and Ellef-
Rincnes Land. a
This criticism and correction was
accepted by the first boy, who started
to change the position of the island,
but was stopped, as Commander
Peary had given instructions thatSno
more changes or were to1be
made in the route as drawn by the
Eskimos on the chart.
From this island they could see
two lands beyond Sverdrup's Enef
Ringnes and Amund Ringnes Lands.
From the island they journeyed
toward the lei. nand n of these
lands (Amund Ringnes Land), pass
ing a small island which they aid
not visit. -,
Arriving at the shore Of Amnnd
Ringnes Land the Eskimos killed a
deer, as indicated on the chart. n
The above portion of the state-
ment of the Eskimo boys covers the
period of time in which DR.. Cook
claims to have gone to the pole fand
back, and the entire time during
which he could possibly have made
any attempts to go to it. ID
The answers of the Eskimo boys
TO Commander Peary's series of in
pendent questions, showing that
they killed no game, made no caches,
lost no dogs and returned to the Hand
with loaded sledges, makes their at
tainment of lac, pole on the strip
north of Cape Thomas Hubbard a
physical and mathematical impossl-
bility as it would demand the sub
sistence of three men and more than
twenty dogs during a journey of ten
hundred and forty geographical
miles on less than two sledge loads,
of supplies. G {
1t is suggested that perhaps Dr..
Cook got mixed and that he reached
the pole, or thought he did, between
the time of leaving the northwest
coast of, Heiberland at Cape North
west and his arrival at Ringnes
Land, where they killed the deer.
liWe.must then add to the date Of DIR.
Cooks letter of '..4arch II, at ofsnear
Cape Thomas Hubbard, the shbse-
quent four or FIVE sleeps atsS that
point and the number Of days re-
quired to march from Cape Thomas
Hubbard to Cape Northwest Ia dis
lance of some sixty nautical miles),
which would advance his date of de-
parture from the Land to att least
the twenty-fifth OF March, and be
prepared to accept the claim that
DIR. Cook went from Cape Northwest
about latitude eighty and a haaf de-
grees north to the pole, a distance
of $40 geographical miles, in twenty
seven days. CfE
After killing the deer, they then
travelled south along the east side Of
Hinges Land to the point indicated
on the chart where they killed an
other deer. d. ~
They then went east across the
south part of Crown Prince Gustav
sea to the isouthsend, of Heibergland,
then down through Norwegian bay,
where they secured some bears, but
not until after tney had killed some
of their dogs, to the east side of
Graham island ); then. eastward to the
little bay marked ".Eid's Fioard" 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
noted off Cape Thomas Hubbard,
they encountered open water. On
this point the boys we're clear, en-
S,bof{o and t,,pC III a l n h1n Trb husi cnonf
a good deal of time in this region,
and finally abandoned their dogs and
one sledge, took to their boat,
crossed Hell's Gate to Norfolk inlet
and then back along the north coast
of Colin Archer peninsula to Cape
Vera where they obtained fresh
elder duck eggs. Here they cut the
remaining sledge-that is, shortened
it Git raj awkward to transport with
the boat), and near here they killed
a walrus. Y
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, in
utcu, anything HuOIc IHdu luc luucI-
emit straight-forwardness and detail
Of their narratives were needed to
substantiate the accuracy and truth
fulness Of the boys statement.
Z This territory of Cape Vera is men
toned in Sverdrup's narrative as the
place where. during his stay in that
region, he obtained elder duck eggs.
From Cape Vera they went on
down into the southwest angle OF
Jones' sound, where they killed a
seal, thence along the south coast of
the sound, killing three bears at the
point noted on the map, to the PEN,
insula known as Cape Sparp, shown
on the map ABOUT midway on the
south side of Jones sound. Here
they killed some musk oxe and, con-
tinuing east, killed four more at
the place indicated on the chart, and
were finally stopped by the pack ice
at the mouth Of Jones sound. From