Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-10-20
PEARY'S PROOF
AGAINST COOK
Quotes Rivals ESkimOs to Prove
He Didn't Reach Pole.
TRACES, ROUTE ON MAP

Declares Physician Explorers Claim
Ie a Physical ImpossibiIity-stor
as Told to Him by Two Eskimo
Boys.
New York. Oct 13. = Commander
Robert e. Peary backed up his many
times repeated assertion that DIR. Fred
erick A. Cook did not reach the North
Pole with a detailed account of the
evidence which he says he and his men
obtained from the Eskimos who ac-
companied Cook on his Arctic trip. DR..
Cook, Peary seeks to prove, never got
further north than Cape Thomas Hub
bard, the northernmost point of Axel
Heiberg Land, at 81 degrees 80 north
latitude. Accompanying his statement
Peary furnishes map on which has
been traced what he says was DR..
Cooks actual route. This route begins
at Annatok, at 7S degrees 80, passes
west and then north between Arthur
Land and Axel Heiberg Land to Cap
tain Thomas Hubbard. From this al
legged "farthest north" Peary seeks to
show that Cook turned south again,
and that he spent the winter of 1908
1909 on the northern shore of North
Devon, little less than Is degrees
north, returning northward to his
starting place, Annatok, in the spring
Of this year. The map also indicates
the points at which, according to the
stories told by the Eskimos, food was
killed and other incidents of the trip
occurred.
Story Of the TWO Eskimos.
Peary's story of DR.. Cooks trip is as
follows:
"After sleeping at the camp where
the last two Eskimos turned back, DR..
Cook and the two boys went in a
northerly or northwesterly direction
with two sledges and twenty odd dogs,
| one more march, when they encoun-
tered rough ice and lead of open wa
ter. They did not enter this rough ice,
nor cross the lead, but turned west
| ward or southwestward a short dis
tance and returned to Heiberg Land
at a point west Of where they had left
| the cache and where the four men had
turned back.
"Here they remained four or five
sleeps, and during that time I-took-a
shoe went back to the cache and got
his gun, which he had left there, and a
| few items of supplies.
when asked why only a few sup
plies were taken from the cache, the
boys replied that only small amount
of provisions had been used in the few
days since they left the cache, an6
that their sledges still had all they
could carry, so that they could no
take more.
4 "After being informed of the boys
narrative thus far, Commander Pear!
suggested series of questions to bt
put, to the boys in regard to this tril
from the land out and back to it.
Questioned Eskimos.
t'These questions and answers wer'
as follows:
. "Did they cross many open leads O
much open water during this time
Ans. None.
stDfd they make any caches out OF
the ice? Ans. No.
"Did they kill any bear or seal Will
out on the ice north Of Cape Thoma
Hubbard? Ans. No.
"Did they kill or lose any Of thei
dogs while out on the ice? Ans. Nc
with how many sledges did the
start? Ans. Two.
"How many dogs did they have
Ans. Did not remember exactly, bu
something over twenty.
s'How many s1edges did they hav
when they got back to land? Ans
Two.
"Dfd they have any provisions lei
on their sledges when they came bac
to land? Ans. Yes; the sledges sti
} had about all they could carry, S
l they were able to take but fe7
: things from the cache.
/ sF'rom here they then went soutl
r west along the northwest coast {
. Heiberg Land to point indicated o
the map (Sverdrup's Cape Northwest
"From here they went west aeros
the ice, which was level and covere
: with snow, offering good going, to-
q low island which they had seen fro
e the shore of Heiberg Land at Car
: Northwest. On this island they cam
f ed for one sleep.
"The size and position of this Is
= and, as drawn by the first boy, WI
criticised by the second boy as beir
: too large and too far to the west, tt
second boy calling the attention
D the first to the fact that the positfc
of the island was more nearly in lii
: with the point where they had lie
Il Heiberg Land {Cape Northwest) al
the channel between Amund Ringn
Land and Ellef Ringnes Land.
X "This criticism and correction vi
p accepted by the first boy, who start'
to change the position of the islam
but was stopped. as Commander Pea
had given instructions that no chang
ar erasures were to be made in t
route as drawn by the Eskimos on t
chart
e ''From this island they could 9
n two lands beyond (Sverdrup's ELL
J. Ringnes and Amund Ringnes Land:
From the island they jCsBTneyed