The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-13
PEARY'S CHARGES
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indicated the same route and the same
details as did the first boy.
! When he was through, Panikpah
the father of ITook a-Shoo, a very
| intelligent man, who was in the party
of Eskmos that came back with Dr..
| Cook from the northern end of Man
sens Strait, who is familiar as hunt
err with the Jones Sound region, and
who has been in Commander Peary's
| various expeditions for Is years, came
in and indicated the same locations
| and details as the two boys.
The first boy was brought in again
and with a pencil he traced on the
| map their route, members of our party
writing up on the chart where, accord
ing to the boys statement they had
/ killed deer, bear, some of their dogs,
seal, warus and musk oxen.
The second boys was then called in
and the two went over the chart to-
eether, the second boy suggesting
some changes as noted hereafter.
/ Finally Panikpah, the father, was
again called in to verify details of the
| positions of the route, with which he
was personally familiar.
| The bulk of the boys testimony was
not taken by Commander Peary nor
In his presence, fact that obviates
any possible claim that they were
awed by him..
+ Certain questions of independe mt
lines from the direct narrative of the
Eskimo boys were suggested by Com
mander Peary to some Of us, and were
put by US to the Eskimo boys.
Still later, Commander Peary asked
the Eskimo boys two or three casual
! questions on minor points that had &C.
CURED to him.
During the taking of this testimony,
! it developed that Dr.. Cook had told
Billy Pritchard, the cabin boy, that
they must not tell Commander Peary
or any of us anything about their
! journey and the boys stated DR.. Cook
had threatened them if they should
tell anything.
Narrative Of Three Eskimos.
| The narrative of these Eskinos is
, as follows:
They, with Dr.. Cook, Francke and
/ nine other Eskimos left Anoratok,
crossed Smith Sound to Cape Sabine,
slept in Commander Peary's old house
| in Payer Harbor, then went through
Rice Strait to Buchanan Bay. After a
! few marches, Francke and three Es-
kimos returned to Anoratok.
! DR.. Cook, with the others then pro-
7 cceded up FIagIer Bay, a branch of
| Buchanan Bay and crossed EIIesmere-
land, through the Valley Pass at the
head CT FlagIer Bay, indicated by
Peary in 1893 and utilized by Svar-
orup in 1899 to the head Of Sverdrup's
"Bayfiaod" on the west side OF EIIes-
mereIand.
Their route then lay through this
Ford, then north through Sverdrup's
"Heureka Sound and Nansen Strait.
On their way they killed musk oxen
and bear and made caches, arriving
eventually at a point on the west side
of Nansen Strait, (shore of AxeIheiber-
gland of Sverdrup) south of Cape
Thomas Hubbard.
A cache was formed here and the
! four Eskin,os did not go beyond this
! point. Two others, kooootingwah
and Inughito went on one more march
with Dr.. Cook and the two boys, help
ed to build the snoy igloo, then re-
turned without sleeping.
These two Eskimos brought back a
letter from DR.. Cook to Francke, dated
the 18th of March. The two men re-
been left behind and the six returned
to Anoratok, arriving May 7. This in
formation was obtained not from the
two Eskimo boys, but from the six
men who returned and from Francke
him self, and was known to us in the
summer Of 1903 when the, Roosevelt
arrived at Etah. The information is
inserted here as supplementary of the
narrative of both boys.
Route OF Cook.
After sleeping at the camp whore
the last two Eskimos turned back,
DR.. Cook went in northerly or
northwesterIy direction with two
sieds and 20 odd dogs, one more
march when they encountered rough
ice and lead of open water. They
did not enter, this rough ice nor cross
the lead, but turned westward or
southwark and returned to Hieberg-
and at a. point west of where they
had left the cache and where the four
manned four or five sleeps and during
this time Shoe went back to the
cache and got his gun which he had
left there and few items Of supplies.
When asked why. only 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,
and their sIedges held all they could
carry, SO they could not take more.
After being informed Of the boys
narrative thus far, Commander Peary
suggested series Of questions to the
boys in regard to this trip from the
land out and back to it.
These questions and answers were
as follows:
"Did they cross much open leads orl
much open water during this timer"
"None."
"Did they kill any bear or seal
while out on the ice while north of
Cape Thomas Hubard?"
"No."