The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-09-14

ETTE, TUESDAY. SEPTEM'
day, but the cost of the desperate
effort pressed to the verge of extins.
ton. On May "a, the sky cleared long
enough to give us set of observa.
tons. We had reached the eighty
fourth parallel, near the ninety seventh
meridian. The ice was much broken,
and drifted eastward, leaving many
open spaces of water.
There remained on our sleds scarcely
enough food to reach our caches on
Nansen Sound, unless we averaged fif-
teen miles daily. With the disrupted
"Lalack' and reduced strength we
were hardly equal to the fifteen miles
daily.
Saved from Famine.
Trying to make the best of our hard
lot, straight course was set for the
musk OK lands of the inner crossing.
At the eighty-third parallel we found
ourselves to the west of large track,
extending southwark. The ice changed
to small fields. The temperature rose
to zero, and a persistent mist obscured
the heavens. The events of the follow.
ing day were pressed into desperate
action. With few lines on paper to
register the life of suffering, the food
for man and dog was reduced to three.
quarter rations, while the difficulties
of ice travel rose to disheartening
heights.
At the end of struggle of twenty
days through thick fog the sky cleared
and we found ourselves far down in
Crown Prince Gustav Sea, with open
water and impossible small ice as a
barrier between us and Heiberg Island.
In the next few days bears came
along as life savers. The empty stom.
achs were spread and the horizon for
a time was cleared of trouble. With
the return to Annootok rendered diff
fcult by the unfortunate westerly drift,
we now sought to follow the ice move
ment south to Lancaster Sound, where
we hoped to reach Scottish whaler.
Early in July further southwark
progress became impossible, and in
quest of food we crossed the Firth of
Devon into Jones Sound.
Greeted by Friends.
The dogs were here given the free.
dom of their propensities, and by fold
ing boat and sled we tried to reach
Baffin IS Bay. With but an occasional
bird to eat and long line of misfor.
tune we pushed eastward until the frost
of early September stopped progress.
With neither food, fuel nor ammuni.
tion we were forced to wrest winter
supplies from what seemed at first like
a lifeless desert.
Pressed by hunger, new implements
were shaped and Cape sparbo wa,
| picked as a likely place to find life.
Game was located with the bow
and arrow, the line, the lance and tn,
knife The musk OK, bear and wolve:
yielded meat, skins and fat. An un
derground den was prepared and in il
we remained until sunrise of 1909.
On February Is the start was made
for Annootok. With newly prepared
equipment the Greenland shores were
reached on April 49, Here we were
greeted by Harry Whitney and al
anxious group of Eskimo friends.
To facilitate an early return
moved southwark to the Danish set
Element and reached Uppernovik OF
| May II, l0U9.
How the Wife Heard the News.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-The follow
ing dispatch was the first notification
received in the United States of the
discovery of the North Pole. 1t wa
received at $3.50 O'Clock this morning
by Mrs. DR.. Robert Tier Davidson Of
No. 500 Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn
to whom, by an agreement received
before DR.. Cook departed on his voy
age, he was to send dispatches in
tended for his wife:
"LERWICK, Sept. Mrs. Fred
rick A. Cook, No. 693 Bushwick avenue
Brooklyn. N. Y: Successful and well
Wire address to Copenhagen.
"FRED.n
Mrs. Cook at the time of her hus
bands departure, two years ago, livet
at No. go Bushwick OSenue, Brook
Ign. She moved from there about
year ago to smaller quarters. At pres
ent she is living with her two daugh
well, Me-, an island in Casco Bay
twenty-five miles from Portland.
Mrs. Davidson, as soon as she re
ceived the message from DR.. Cook
repeated it by telegraph to Mrs. Cook
She also sent the telegram itself t.
Mrs. Cook by mail.
Mrs. Cook heard from her husban,
last about year ago, through a mem
Der of the Peary relief expedition. Al
though she was anxious concerning
DIR. Cooks whereabouts, she never los
confidence in him, and before starting
for Maine in June, told Mrs. David
son that she felt she would soon hea
that he had been successful.
"My husband never believed in sen
sationalism," Mrs. Cook said of him
in an interview before she left tn
city for the summer, "and his feeling
against Peary was pronounced. He say
Peary work in Greenland and didn
like the way he treated the natives.
"When he had chance to com
home, DIR. Cook refused to do SO. In
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