Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1910-12-15

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o fast does the world
4 move nowadays that I'M
less one stops to reflect
bit there seems moth
~ ing unusual in the fact
IL, that Harry Whitney, the
Al New Haven sportsman,
. should have gone hunting
to the place which not
many years ago marked the fthern-
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 Greedy
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-
ton OF 1871.
The adventures Mr.. Whitney had
as a 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 sportsman's tale, but
as record of crowded adventure
and as a portrayal of Eskimo types.
Since Mr.. Whitney went as>far
north as Etah with the Peary ezl
ton of II and returned to civ MIA
ton on the Peary relief ship Jeanne
after having been the first white man
to greet the returning pole finder up
under the shadow of the north, his
book comes as sort of epilogue to
Pearys narrative of his achievement
AS an amateur Arctic explorer TthA
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 a
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 hi
had not come prepared to isolate him
self for a year and endure the hard
ships of the Arctic night, Whitne!
preached his determination to stick i
out with the Eskimos at Etah to Com
mander Peary before the Roosevelt
left for the north on August IS. ant
Peary made him an allowance o
stores sufficient to keep him until tn
return of the expeditions tender ii
the following August should offe
passage home.
So 1t was that with shack bull
for him by the carpenter and the bosI
of the Erik at Etah and the two men
bers of the Roosevelt's crew left t
guard a cache of provisions at Al
nootok, forty miles away, as his sol
white companions in the land Of ST
ence, Mr.. Whitney saw the Erik stear
away for the south on August 2,
Then he realized that he was ms
rooned In the most desolate region {
the earth, among race who spoke
strange tongue. There was no escap
for nearly year"
Even the Eskimo companions left
the sportsman were not many. Pear
had taken the pick of the tribe mort
with him on the Roosevelt, men, won
en- and children. and the Eskimo
who remained began early the grillin
task Of storing the community larde
against descending night. Whitne
threw his lot in with them sbsoluteI!
Lived the Life of an Eskimo,
He straightway became an Eskim
in his mode of life as far as he coult
and before he got away from the ic
bound coast OF Smith Sound, Whitne
had reason to count among his be-
friends the supplemented folk VIII
pass as sayages.
The beginning Of the Arctic nigh
found Whitney and the Eskimo cor
munity all settled In Annootok, whie
is the northernmost settlement OF Il
! Arctic highlanders. The man who ha
come to the country to hunt speedil
discovered that necessity forced hiI
to do little else.
The descending night found the E
kimos feverishly active in the task
laying up a store against the winte
Whitney had either to remain alor
in his board and packing box shaC