Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-29

from r,tah. The following day some
other F.squimauX went out, recovered
the sledge and brought it in. On it were
Dr.. Cooks Instruments, clothing and
food
After spending two days at AnnatolS,
where Cook first met Whitney. Cook
started fer Etah. Whitney accompa-
nied him. Cook remained for three
lays at Etah, organizing his trip
south to Upernavik. The doctor had
figured out roughly the date that he
would be likely to get to Upernavik
and when the Dundee whalers or the
Danish storeships would reach there
and he argued that he had no time to
lose He planned originally to take two
tsquimaux and two sledges but one
.sQuimau fell sick and this made it
&C. ssary for him to cut down the
luggage he could take with him south.
He consequently asked Whitney to
axe charge of the instruments with
Which he had made his observations
It the pole. There We're three cases.
me containing a seXtant, another an
artificial horizon and the third an in
trumcnt which Mr.. Whitney said he
ouid not recall. 1t possibly might
ave hcen chronOmeter. Cook left no
written records with Whitney that
Whitney is aware of. There may have
zen some records, however, in the
,ther boxes, in which Cook packed his
lotllnS and his personal effects, but
'ook did not tell Whitney especially
nat he was leaving any records with
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bout this.
Alter Cook departed for the south,
Whitney resumed his hunting. He took
pvor Cooks two Esquimaux, Etukish-
Is and Arwaalv, to show him the
country where Cook had shot musk
ken. This the two men did and Whit
y Ragged all the oxen he could car
ont on his sledges. He said he
'"unl these two EIsquimaux to be quite
satisfactory in subordinate capacities
but he knows nothing of their value in
| dash across the Polar sea-
Continuing, Mr.. Whitney said that
Ast month when Peary on board the
I;o"sevelt reached Etah from the
North after his winters work there,
70, Whitney, informed him of DR..
'ook's arrival in April, adding that
'ook had told him, Whitney, to tell
teary that Cook had gone beyond
peary's farthest north. Peary made no
comment on this and Whitney said he
VAS moi asked any other questions by
Fcary. But the next day Cooks Es-
1uimaux came to Whitney and asked
him what Peary's men were trying to
get them to say. Peary's men had
shown the Esquimaux papers and
maps but the Esqumaux declared
they did not understand these papers.
So far as Mr. Whitney is aware, Cook S
Isauinaux never admitted that while
with the doctor, they had only pro-
gresscd two sleeps" from land.
The day the Roosevelt was leaving
Ftah for home Whitney informed
Peary that Cook had entrusted to him
certain belongings to bring home on
the Vessel that was coming for Whit
ney, hut as this ship had not arrived
Whitney was at loss what to do
with this property.
Peary declined to permit DR.. Cooks
belongings to be brought aboard the
Roosevelt and he put Whitney on his
ing to DIR. Cook in his own luggage
hitney thereupon went ashore from
the Roosevelt, separated DR.. Cook e
property from his own baggage and
with the aid of Capt. Robert Bartlett
commander of the Roosevelt, whom
he had asked to help him, repacketl
Cooks property in boxes. After this
had been done Whitney and Part.
lett cached all Cooks property in a
cave in the rocks. They built up the
cave securely with stones and turf
ard left 1t and the property in charge
of one of Or. Cooks Esquimaux. There
was. nowhere flse to put DR.. Cook
property. as Peary's house had been
dismantled and his stores given to
his Esquimaux and as all the material
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