The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-03-25
PEARY'S POLAR
BEAR CHASE.
Exciting Incident Of His Jour-
ney TO the North Pole.
HOI PuRSuIT N SLEOGES.

HOT PURSUIT IN SLEDGES.
Explorer Tells How Men and Dogs
! Were electrified by Sharp Sighted
EsISimc's Cry Of "NanooksoahlT "a
Polar 5ssr)-odd Feature of Hunt.
"A most graphic account Of polar
bear hunt appears IN the April INSTALL
ment Of Commander Robert r. Peary's
story Of the Discovery Of the North
Pole in Hampton's Magazine 1t be-
gins
After few hours sleep we started,
straight as a crow dies. across the
eastern end of the great glacial fringe,
headed for the mouth Of Clements
Markham inlet. Reaching the mouth
Of the inlet. we kept on down its east
ern shore, finding very good going, for
the tides rising in the crack next the
shore had saturated the everything
snow; then, freezing, had formed a
narrow but smooth surface for the
sledges. A little farther on we were
electrified BY tense whisper from the
ever sharp sighted E-glDg-wah:
/" 'Nanooksoahr
HE was pointing excitedly toward
the center Of the ford, and, following
the direction OF bis finger, we saw a
cream colored spot leisurely rnoving
toward the mouth Of the fiord-a polar
bear.
while stood in front Of the dogs
With a whip in each hand to keep
them from dashing away, for the Es-
kimo dog knows the meaning Of ma
nooksoah' as well as bis master. the
three men were throwing things Off
the sledges as if they were crazy.
Hot After the Bear.
"When the sledges were empty
lowered the whips and stood to one
side. Oob-loo-yah's team shot by me,
with Oob-loo-yah at the upstanders.
E-gipg came next, and / threw
myself on his sledge as it few past.
Behind us came Koo-la-too-nah with
the third team.
"The bear had heard us and was
making for the opposite shore of the
ford with prodigious bounds. / jump
ed 70 the upstanders OF the flying
sledge, leaving E-ging-wah to throw
himself on the bottom and get his
breath, and away we al went, wild
with excitement across the snow COW
cred surface Of the ford.
"Oob-loo-yab, with crazy team and
only himself at the upstanders. dis
tanced the rest Of us, arriving at the
farther shore almost as soon as the
leapiBs bear. He loosed his dogs i'm
mediateIy, and we could see the bear
in the distance, followed by minute
dots that looked hardly larger than
mosquitoes swarming up the slope.
Chasing the Devil.
"a most peculiar circumstance, com
meuted on by E-ging-wah as we few
along. was that this bear. contrary to
the invariable custom OF bears In Es-
kimo land, did not stop when the dogs
came toward him, but kept right on
travelling This to E-ging-wah was al
most certain proof that the great devil
himself-the terrible Tor-nar-suk- was
IN that bear. AT the thought Of chas-
ing the devil my sledge companion
grew even more excited.
when we reached the western shore
of the ford. up which we had seen
from . distance the bear and Oob-loo-
vsh's dogs slowly climbing both we
and our dogs were pretty we'll winded
"A little farther on we came to o
deep canyon. and as we could tell by
the sounds, the dogs and the bear were
at the bottom. But where we stood
the walls were too precipitous for even
an Eskimo to descend, and we could
not see the bear He was evidently
under some projecting ledge on ouI
side.
It's Escape From Pesry.
Moving up the canyon 70 find q
place OF descent, heard E-ging-wat
shout that the bear had started dowr
the canyon aud was climbing up th'
other side Hurrying back through
The deep snow and over the rorgl
rocks. suddenly saw the beast per
haps a hundred yards away and raised
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