El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-28

20 PEOPLE are really interested in
- DR.. Cook yeti Then I, too, have
something to tell, a talk with the
first tangible witness in this Cook az
fair, and the doctors famous seXtant
which he left at Etah and which / sent
back to civilization.
But let me begin with the begin
We are standing on an ice floe, four
men, stripping the meat from, Walrus
we have just caught. We are three
celebrities and myself;
First Itukusuk. DR.. Cooks travelling
companion; Inukitsorg, who was az tne
North Pole with Peary, and Mink, the
Eskimo, who spent 10 years OF MS ne
in America, and who is known every
where in New York And then there IS
myself. and we tear and cut into the
mountain Of flesh, so that the Dloog
eushes steaming across the IlOe- AnQ
when we have finished we SIT down anu
cut omen the stomach The Walrus mas
inst finished a meal and the stomach
is full OF the most wonderful oystet
The gastric juice acts ike an aGlu'
ptouant sauce-life is really worth Nv
ing. -, 90, ei,7oz ~,
1t is warm, and we, feel so Ilile "a ~ Z
that we lie down on the foe ana Iilinh
OF the past. Itukusuk is the first one
TO open his mouth ...r--. ~,
have begun to think. / am JnlhklL5
on this-that near the house we nad az
Cane Sparbo. we caught five Walruses
during the winter, but we TOOK 9hLy
The fat and left the meat for the dogs
and the foxes. Yes, there was heaps
of meat, you may oetIsEe. c.r-
The Winter Win NOoh.
was that with DR.. Cook! ,.
yves. that was when we were living
in our house; he and Apilak and J.
Did you ike Dr. COOK .,-
Il do not like people VINO Ile' nat
TItukusuk is not thinking of the North
Pole which does not interest," Alpt ~
an. 1t was his own interests 9lSA
suffered on that Trip lien 80 v-oI,
DR.. Cook had shown them many WOH-
derf1I things they were TO nave 70 aC-
eompanv him, but when they came oacs
ALI they got was pochaLh -
some matches each and 4IuAu21N tl,O -. 80
tbaf was too little for two years latu
work [ thought so, too, i say, ana We
all have a hearty laugh. lux ~ IN
laughs louder than any OF US "-1N
he thinks of the poor JoD. ,-,.,-
TnuIzitsorg remarks with conslCetdp
DrjJe mat be was better paid when ne
was with Peary- a.,
yes but YOU were way up at the
navel of the world We We're no loHseL
-v,-ov than we could always see tne
49, T-bic7 were to show us our way
b9cir hut anyhow he ought TO nave palo
a little better. But Dr. COOK IS not 'la'
kind of a man, he ,.--
Mink remarks that the three hunters
who drove him down across Melyl-le
nav TO Danish Greenland expected
1itf1e more than the little canvas SAN
thev cot for their trouble
As the sail was worth only ABOUT
cents. III stands to reason that Dr.
Cook did not ruin himself paying wages
to his helpers.
Well Itukusuk has really been rather
hard no since that time He met up
with 10 dogs, which he lost and Wnlcn
he was never paid for, but he stiu has
five left Tt takes time TO breed pups
and get on your feet again.
Loses Chance Tor a Wife.
Then ne is stin single, though ~
was his turn" to set wife. There are
rot women enough in the tribe and
when he left there were some young
girls who were just about to be old
enough to marry. Now they went or
while he was away and married men
Younger than he and it VIII be anotner /
wear at least before another batch is
ripe.
signs.
We agree with him and I use the
opportunity to interview him while he
Is in a humor 10 talk
Didn't you hear DIT. Cook tell that