The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-29
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sometimes occupied one and sometimes
the other Of these houses. Murphy was
in charge of both houses. He is not
able to read or write. He had written
instructions from Peary which Whitney,
at Peary's request, read over to him
from time to time. These instructions
were very stringent They directed
Murphy to use Cooks stores first and
Peary's afterwards.
Murphy was told in them that he was
to give DR.. Cook every help If he came
along in a needy condition and, further
more, the instructions implied that Muir
ply was to organize an expedition to
search for DR.. Cook, but according to
Mr. Whitney, this part Of the instruc-
lions was wOrded very ambiguously.
Cook Treated civiIly.
Mr.. Whitney said that Cook had a copy
Of these instruction and would doubtless
make them public. Murphy treated Cook
very civHly and Cock suffered no dis
courtesy.
When Dr. Cook and his Eskimos arrived
at the hut they had no sledge. Being too
tired to drag it over the rough ice, they
had left it twenty miles from Etah The
following day some other Eskimos went
out, recovered the sledge and brought il
in. On it were DR.. Cooks instruments,
clothes and food.
The doctor had figured rightly the date
he would reach Uppernavik, and when the
Dundee whalers or Danish stOreshiDs
would reach there, and he argued that
he had no time to lose. He planned orig
naliy to take two EskimOs and two
sledges, but one Eskimo fell sick, and this
made il necessary for him to cut down
the luggage he could take with him south
He consequently asked Whitney to take
charge of the instruments with which he
had made his observations at the pole
After Cook departed for the south Whit
uey resumed his hunting. He took over
Cooks two Eskmos, Etukishuls and Ar
walalv, to show him the country where
Cook had shot musk oxen. This the two
men did, and Whitney bagged all the
oxen he could carry out in his sledge.
He said he found these two Eszimos to
be quite satisfactory in subordinate ca
pacities, but he knows nothing of their
value in a dash across the polar sea
What Whitney Told Peary.
Continuing, Mr.. Whitney said that last
month, when PeaTy, on board the Roose-
welt, reached Etah from the north after
his winters work there, he whitney,
informed him of DR.. Cooks arrival in
April, adding that Cook had told him
whitney, to tell Peary that Cook had
gene beyond Peary's farthest north. Peary
made no comment on this, and Whitney
said he was not asked any other ques-
tons by Peary. But the next day Cook S
EskimOs came to Whitney and asked him
what Peary's men were trying to get
them to say.
Peary's men had shown the Eskimos
papers and maps, but the Eskimos de-
clared they did not understand these pa
pers. So far as Mr.. Whitney is aware
Cooks EskimOs never admitted that, while
with the doctor they had only progressed
two sleeps from land.
The day the Roosevelt was leaving Etah
for home Whitney informed Peary that
Cook had entrusted to him certain be-
longings TO bring home on the vessel that
was coming up for Whitney, but as this
ship had not arrived, Whitney was at a
loss what to do with the property.
Peary declined to permit DR.. Cooks
belongings to be brought aboard the
Roosevelt. and he put Whitney on his
honor not to include anything belonging
TO DR.. Cook in his own luggage.
Whitney thereupOn went ashore, sepa-
rated DR.. Cooks property from his own
luggage. and with the aid of Captain
Robert Bartlett, commander of the Roose-
welt whom he had asked to help him
repack DIR. Cooks property in boxes Aft
er this had been done Whitney and Bart
lett cached all Cooks property in a cave
in the rocks. They built up the cave Sc
curely with stones and turf and left IL
and the property in charge of one of the
doctors Eskimos.