Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1909-09-17
| WAS AT THE POLB I.
DECLARES HENSBN
PEARY's NEGRO SERVANT NJ
MES s1ORIEs TOLD ABOUT -.
HELPED PLANT TWO FLAGS.
-FOUR ESKnMOs ACCOlPANKND
THE EXPLORING PARTY.
Negro Says He Knew That There
Was Opposition to His Going,
hut He Went.

BATTLE HARBOR, Labrador, by wire
less telegraph via Cape Ray, N. n. 0spt
h-"Wo hoisted the stars and stripes
twice ct the north pole" said Matthew
Hensen. Commander Robert IA PeATy's
,colored lieutenant, and the only other CIV
,ilized man. according to Peary, who ever
reached the pole
! Hensen tonight gave to the Associated
Pross an account Of the three days he and
Commander Peary with four nskimos
camped at ninety degrees latitude. Hen
sen personally assisted In raising tho
American flag and he led the Hskis,os
In the cheers and an extra cheer for .'Old
Glory" in the Eskimo tongue.
/ Having spent eighteens years with Com
mander Peary. and considerable portion
.of that time in the arctics,n = aatd Henaen,
81 have acquired . knowledge Of the
northern Greenland Eskimos. EWhD are
certainly superior to any other. The
Eskimo entertains q strange prsjudlce ~
ward any tongue but one and K8ia thcre-
sSoSss1 scrsasc3 zsss ss,s6a s0aeall Aaalne Asl4h4
them to study their own unwritteA laR-
guage. 3 s5S M
Z. "On April the party consisted of Com
mander Peary, myself. four Eskim0S and
the dogs. We had left the last supporting
party at 81 degrees, 81 minutes. whore We
had left Captain Bartlett who was photo
graphed BY the commander. Captain
Bartlett regretted that he did not have
o British flag to erect on tho Ice at this
spot. 80 that the photograph might show
this as the farthest north to wlsch the
banner OF Britain had been advapcod
kept personal diary DURING this
historic dash across the ice field. Our
first task on reaching the pole WINS TO
build two igloos. as the weather was
hazy and prevented the taking Of accu-
rate observations to confirm the distance
travelled
Position Changes.
When we first raised the American
nag Its position was behind the bglOos
which according to our initial 0bserva-
tions was the position Of the pole. bur
on taking subsequent observations the
stars and stripes were moved and placed
d5S yasds vest Of the f.ss pos.,O the
perhaps, 70 the moving Ice.
When the first flag was placed Com
mander Peary exclaimed IL English:
I'VE ~ VIII, VIII plant i the stars and stripes At
In the native language I proposed
three cheers, which were given IN the
Eskimos own tongue. Commander
had more liberal dinner than nsaal,
each man eating as much as he pleased.
The Eskimos danced about ana showed
great pleasure that the pole at last was
been trying to reach that spot. Dut il
was always with them "Tiqnelgh,' which
translated means: Get 10 far and no
further. They exclaimed in o chorus:
We have got there at last
Hensen, who reached the farther north
with Peary three years ago, said that
conditions were about the Same 81 the
DOle a8 elSewhpra In tha a rctke Carr1a
All was . solid sea Of Ice with two,
foot lead Of open water two miles from;
the pole. The Eskimos on the final lap
Sigloo. the two first named being hrOth-
ers. Commander Peary took photographs
Of Hensen and the Eskimos waving flags
and cheering. Continuing his story. I3en-