Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-12-15

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less one stops to reflect
~BA bit there seems moth
~ ing unusual in the fact
IL, W that Harry Whitney, the
4 q New Haven sportsman,
- should have gone hunting
to the place which not
many years ago marked the northern
most limit of polar exploration. For
nearly a year he lived by choice al
most in the shadow of that Cape Sa-
bine, where the men of the Greely
expedition starved to death in 1888
Many times he passed on his expedi-
ton after game the wreck of the
steamship Polari of the Hall eXpedi-
tion OF 1871.
The adventures Mr.. Whitney had
as sportsman in this far north
where men before him had met death
as explorers he has set down in his
book, Hunting With the Eskimos,"
which has just been published, says a
writer in the Montreal Herald.
Though the author seems to consider
himself primarily a sportsman and
the love of hunting strange game
was what kept him through all the
Arctic night living with the Eskimos
and as an Eskimo, his book is inter-
esting not as a sportsmans tale, but
as a record of crowded adventure
and as portrayal of Eskimo types.
Since Mr. Whitney went as far
north as Etah with the Peary expedi-
tion of 1908 and returned to civiliza-
tion on the Peary relief ship Jeanie
after having been the first white man
to greet the returning pole finder up
under the shadow OF the north. his
book comes as a sort of epilogue to
Peary's narrative of his achievement.
AS an amateur Arctic explorer this
New Haven sportsman has at least
one valuable qualification, the gift of
direct and simple narrative.
In company with two other sports
men the author went north on the
Peary expeditions tender Erik. which
followed the Roosevelt on its last and
successful dash through the ice fields.
His intention and that of his friends
was merely to make the voyage to
Etah on the Greenland coast, get q
little incidental hunting and then to
return to the world when the Erik put
back and the Roosevelt continued on
her way northward to Cape Sheridan.
Captivated by the Arctic.
But once at Etah, away down under
the foot of the mountains with the
Greenland ice cap sparkling from the
summit of the range. Whitney caught
the fever OF the north. Though he
had not come prepared to isolate him.
self for a year and endure the hard.
ships of the Arctic night, Whitney
broached his determination to stick II
out with the Eskimos at Etah To Com
mander Peary before the Roosevelt
left for the north on August IS. and
Peary made him an allowance OF
stores sufficient TO keep him until the
return Of the expeditions tender in
the following August should Offer
passage home.
So II was that with a shack built
for him by the carpenter and the hos n
of the Erik al Etah and the two mem
bers OF the Roosevclt's crew left tc
HHAAh "a hthN Atf. VIZ AfAhH lnI1AtH IN an
nootok, forty miles away. as his sole
white companions iu the land OF sIl
ence. Mr. Whitney saw the Erik steam
away for the south on August 2l
Then he realized that he was ma
rooued I'm the most desolate region oi
the earth among a race who spoke {
strange tongue. There was no oscap,
for nearly a year"
Even the Eskimo companions left [.
the sportsman were not many Pearj
had taken the pick of the tribe nortt
with him on the Roosevelt. men. WON
en- and children. and the Eskimoi
who remained began early the grillin.
task of storing the community lardei
against descending night Whitnel
threw bis iCt iH with thcm absolutely
Lived the Lite Of an Eskimo.
He straightway became an Eskim,
In his mode of NE as tar as he could
and before he gut away from the ie,
bound coast OF smith sound. Wbitnel
bad reason Co count among hts bea
friends thc Hluplemiudod folk Wh,
pass as HaEaEes
The beginning uf tbe Arctic nigh
found WlitusY cad the Eskimo sH.
HuuiV aa ..fuet .H AHnaafuk. whlel
& the uHf.h.ramaHt settlement OF th
Arctic tIEHaud.l Tbt mau aha ha,
como tu fHr cuHufrg u hunt arssdut
discovered that ure..aIfY iarc.I hiu
o. du IuI'. .a.
The de.e.ufIHs r.rht l.aaH Hl Fa
k.mua i.t.#..H.F .nus. H .a. ...t \
layluF Ha "a sfHre H-a.a.f t.- Hra,
WhtHsF EHd ,.tHer W I.Wla aI...
a. bla uaafi ar1 HseaHE a4. th4a.