The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-10-23

f1OW MANY sleuSSS ulu lney nave
when they got back to land? Ans.
Two.
Did they have any provisions left on
their sledges when they came back to
land? Ans. Yes; the sledges still had
about all they could carry, so they
were able to take but few things
from the cache.
From here they went southwest
along the northwest coast of Heiberg
Land to a point indicated on the map
(Sverdrup's Cape Northwest).
From here they went west across
the ice, which was level and covered
with snow, offering good going, to
low island which they had seen from
the shore of Heiberg Land at Cape
Northwest On this island they
camped for one sleep.
From this island they could see two
lands beyond (Sverdrup's ElIef Ring
mes and Amund Rhymes Lands). From
the island they journeyed toward the
left-hand one Of these two lands
(Amund Hinges Land), passing
small island which they did not visit.
The answers Of the Eskimo boys to
Commander Peary's series Of indie
pendent questions, showing that they
killed no game, mace no caches, lost
no dogs, and returned to the land
with loaded sledges, makes their at
tainment Of the pole on the trip
north Of Cape Thomas Hubbard a
physical and mathematical impossi-
bility, as II would demand the sub
sistence Of three men and over twen-
ty dogs during a journey Of ten hun
dred and forty geographical miles on
less than two sledge loads Of supplies.
II II Is suggested that perhaps Or.
| Cook got mixed and that he reached
the pole, or thought he did, between
the time of leaving the northwest
coast Of Heiberg Land at Cape North
west, and his arrival at Rhymes Land,
where they killed the deer, we must
then add to the date Of DR.. Cooks let.
ter Of March 18th, at or near Cape
Thomas Hubbard, the subsequent four
or five sleeps at that point, and the
number Of days required to march
from Cape Thomas Hubbard to Cape
Northwest "a distance of some sixty
nautical miles,, which would advance
his date of departure from the land
to at least the 25th Of March, and be
prepared to accept the claim that Dr..
Cook went from Cape Northwest
(about latitude eighty and a half de.
grees NORTH to the pole, a distance OF
five hundred and seventy geographical
miles, in twenty-seven days.
After killing the deer they then trav.
eled south along the east side of Ring
mes Land to the point indicated on the
chart, where they killed another deer
They then went east across the
south part of Crown Prince Gustav
sea to the south end of Heiberg Land
then down through Norwegian bay
where they secured some bears, but
not until after they had killed some Of
their dogs, to the east side of Ora
ham Island; then eastward to the lit
tie bay marked "Eid's Fiord" on Sver
drups chart; then southwest to Hel's
Gate and Simmons peninsula.
Here for the first time during the
entire journey, except as already
noted off Cape Thomas H. Hubbard
they encountered open water. On thi!
point the boys were clear, emphatic
and unsuitable. They spent a gooC
, deal of time in this region, and finall!
abandoned their dogs and one sledge
|, took to their boat, crossed Hell's Gait
to North Kent, up into Norfolk Inlet
then back along the north coast o
Colin Archer Peninsula to Cape Vera
where they obtained fresh elder duel
eggs. Here they cut the remainin,
sledge off, that is shortened it, as |
was awkward to transport with tn
boat, and near here they killed wa
rus.
!. From Cape Vera they went on dow
into the southwest angle of Jone
Sound, where they killed seal
thence east along the south coast @
: the sound, killing three bears at tn
d point noted on the map, to the penir
sula known as Cape Sparbo on tn
n map, about midway on the south sid
3 of Jones Sound. Here they kille
e some musk-oxen and, continuing cas-
i killed four more at the place ind
4 Gated on the chart, and were finall
stopped by the pack ice at the mout
e of Jones Sound. From here the
$ turned back to Cape Sparbo, wher
d they wintered and killed many musl
b oxen.
J, After the sun returned in 1909 the
II started, pushing their sledge, acros
Jones Sound to Cape Tennyson; theme
> along the coast to Clarence Head
y (passing inside of two small island
e not shown on the chart, but drawn o
p it by the boys), where they killed
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