ISSUESLONGPROMISED STATE
MENT IN NORTH POLE
. . . . DISPUTE.
GIVES STORY OF THE ESKIMOS
The Statement Is Signed by Peary ,
Bartlctt , McMillan , Borup and Henson -
son of the Roosevelt Party Eski
mo Boys Closely Questioned by All.
( Kntorod neconlliiR to Act oC Congress.
In the year 1D09 , by the Peary Arctic Club.
In the olllco oC the librarian ot Concrass ,
nt Washington , D. C. )
New York , Oct. 12. The
following statement of Command
er Robert E. Peary , which he
submitted , together with the accom
panying map , to the Peary Arctic club
Iu support of hit ) contention that Dr.
Cook did not reach the north pole ,
In now made public for the first time.
The statement and map have been
copyrighted by the Peary Arctic club.
INTRODUCTION BY PEARY.
. Some of my reasons for saying that
Dr. Cook did not go to the north polo
will be understood by those who read
the following statements of the two
Eskimo boys who went with him , and
who told mo and others of my party
where ho did go. Several Eskimos
who started with Dr. Cook from An-
oratok In February , 190S , were at
Etah when I arrived there In August ,
1908. They told me that Dr. Cook had
with him , after they left , two Eskimo
boys , or young men , two sledges and
some twenty dogs. The boys were
I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah. I had
known them from their childhood.
une was aooui eighteen and the other
about nineteen years of age.
On my return from Cape Sheridan
and at the very first settlement I
touched ( Nerke , near Capo Chalon ) In
August , 1909 , and nine days before
reaching Etah , the Eskimos told me ,
in a general way , where Dr. Cook had
been ; that he had wintered In Jones
Sound , and that ho had told the white
men at Etah that ho had boon a long
way north , but that the boys who were
with him , I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah ,
said that this was not so. The Eski
mos laughed at Dr. Cook's story. On
reaching Etah , I talked with the Es
kimos there and with the two boys
and asked them to describe Dr. Cook's
Journey to members of m'y party and
myself. This they did in the manner
stated below.
< ( SlEned ) R. E. PEAUT.
Signed Statement of Peary , Bartlett ,
McMillan , Borup and Henson , in Re
gard to Testimony of Cook's Two
Eskimo Boys.
The two Ksklmo boys , I-took-a-shoo
and Ah-pe-lah , who accompanied Dr.
Coqk while he was away from Ajiora-
tok In IflOS and 1909 , were questioned
separately and independently , and
were corroborated by Panikpah , the
father of one of them ( I-took-a-shoo ) ,
who was personally familiar with the
first third and the last third of their
Journey , and who said that the route
for the remaining third , as shown by
them , was as described to him by his
eon after his return with Dr. Cook.
To go more Into details : One of
the boys was called In , and , with a
chart on the table before him , was
asked to show where he had gone
with Dr. Cook. This ho did , pointing
out with his finger on the map , but
not making any marks upon It.
As he went out , the other boy came
In and was asked to show where he
had gone with Dr. Cook. This he did ,
also without making any marks , and
indicated the same route and the
same details as did the first boy.
When he was through , Panikpah ,
the father of I-took-a-shoo , a very In-
telligen man , who was In the party
of Eskimos that came back from Dr.
Cook from the northern end of Nan-
sen's strait , who Is familiar as n hunt
er with the Jones Sound region , and
who has been In Commander Peary's
various expeditions for some fifteen
years , came in and indicated the same
localities and details as the two boys.
Then the first boy was brought In
again , and with a pencil he traced on
the map their route , members of our
party writing upon the chart where
according to the boy's statement , they
had killed deer , bear , some of their
dogs , seal , walrus and musk oxen.
The second boy was then called in
and the two went over the chart to
gether , the second hey suggesting
some changes as noted hereafter.
During the taking of this testimony ,
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MAP SHOWING WHAT PEARY CLAIMS IS ROUTE TRAVELED BY DR. COOK
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it developed that Dr. Cook had told
these boys , as ho told Mr. Whitney
and Billy Prltchard , 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.
The narrative of these Eskimos Is
as follows :
They , with Dr. Cook , Francke and
nine other Eskimos , left Anoratok ,
crossed Smith's Sound to Cape Sablne ,
slept In Commander Peary's old house
In Payer Harbor , then went through
Rice strait to Buchanan bay. After a
few marches Francko and three Eski
mos returned to Anoratok.
Dr. Cook , with the others , then pro
ceeded up Flagler bay , a branch of
Buchanan bay , and crossed Biles-
mere Land through the valley pass at
the head of Flagler bay , Indicated by
Commander Peary in 1898 , and utilized
by Sverdrup in 1899 , to the head of
Sverdrup's "Bay Fiord" on the west
side of Ellesmere Land.
Their route then lay out through
this fiord , thence north through Sver
drup's "Heuerka 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 Axel Ilel-
berg Land of Sverdrup ) , south of
Capo Thomas Hubbard.
A cache was formed here and the
four Eskimos did not go beyond this
point. Two others , Koolootlngwah and
Inughito , went on one more march
with Dr. Cook and the two boys ,
helped to build the snow igloo , then
returned without sleeping.
( These two Eskimos brought back
a letter from Dr. Cook to Francke.
dated the seventeenth of March. The
two men rejoined the other four men
who had been left behind , and the six
returned to Anoratok , arriving May 7.
This information was obtained not
from the two Eskimo boys , but from
the six men who returned and from
Francke himself , and was known to
us In the summer of 1908 , when the
Roosevelt first arrived at Etah. The
Information is inserted hero as supple
mentary to the narrative of the two
boys. )
After sleeping at the camp where
the last two Eskimos turned back , Dr.
Cook and the two boyo went in a
northerly or northwesterly direction
with two sledges and twenty-odd dogs ,
one or more march , when they en
countered rough ice and a lead of open
water. They did not enter this rough
ice , nor cross the lead , but turned
westward or southwestward a short
distance and returned to Helberg Land
at a point west of where they had left
the cache and where the four men had
turned back.
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After being informed of the boys
narrative thus far , Commander Peary
suggested a scries of questions to be
put to the boys in regard to this trip
from Tie land out and back to it.
Did they cross many open leads 01
much open water during this time ;
Ans. None.
Did they make any caches out or
the ice ? Ans. No.
With how many sledges did the )
start ? Ans. Two.
How many dogs did they have ? Ans
Did not remember exactly , but some
thing over twenty.
How many sledges did they hav <
when they got back to land ? Ans
Two.
Did they have any provisions left or
their sledges when they came back tc
land ? Ans. Yes ; the sledges still hac
about all they could carry , so the )
were able to take but a few thing ;
from the cache.
From here they went southwesi
along the northwest coast of Helberc
Land to a point indicated on the ma ;
( Sverdrup's Cape Northwest ) .
From here they went west acrosi
the ice , which was level and covoret
with snow , offering good going , to ;
low island which they had seen frort
the shore of Helberg Land at Capi
Northwest. On this island the }
camped for one sleep.
From this island they could see twc
lands beyond ( Sverdrup's Ellef Ring
nes and Amund Rlngnes Lands ) . Fron
the island they journeyed toward tht
left-hand one of these two land ;
( Amund Ringes Land ) , passing ;
small Island which they did not visit.
Arriving at the shore of Amunc
Ringnes Land , the Eskimos killed ;
deer as indicated on the chart.
The above portion of the state
ment of the Eskimo boys covers
the period of time In which Dr. Cook
claims to have gone to the pole and
back , and the entire time during
which he could possibly have made
any attempts to go to It.
If it is suggested that perhaps Dr.
Cook got mixed and that he reached
the pole , or thought he did , between
the time of leaving the northwest
coast of Helberg Land at Cape North
west , and his arrival at Ringnes Land ,
where they killed the deer , we must
then add to the date of Dr. Cook's let
ter of March 17th , at or near Cape
Thomas Hubbard , the subsequent four
or five sleeps at that point , and the
number of days required to march
from Cape Thomas Hubbard to Cape
Northwest ( a distance of some sixty
nautical miles ) , which would advance
his date of departure from the land
to at least the 25th of March , and be
prepared to accept the claim that Dr.
Cook went from Cape Northwest
( about latitude eighty and a half de
grees north ) to the pole , a distance of
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After killing the deer they then trav
eled south along the cast side of Ring
nes Land to the point indicated on the
chart , where they killed another deer.
They then went east across the
south part of Crown Prince Gnatav
sea to the south end of Iloiborg Land ,
then down through Norwegian bay ,
where they secured some bears , but
not until after they had killed'some of
llieir dogs , to the east sldo of Gra
ham Island ; then eastward to the lit-
tic bay marked "Eld's Fiord" on Svor-
drup't ) chart ; then southwest to Hell's
Gate and Simmon's peninsula.
Here for the first tlmo during the
entire journey , except as already'
noted off Cape Thomas 11. JIubbard ,
they encountered open water. On thiH
point the boys wore clear , emphatic ,
and unshakable. They spent a good
deal of time In this region , and finally
abandoned their dogs and one sledge ,
took to their boat , crossed Hell's Oato
to North Kent , up Into Norfolk Inlet ,
then back along the north coast of
Colin Archer Peninsula to Capo Vent ,
where they obtained fresh elder duck
eggs. Here they cut the remaining
sledge off , that la shortened it , as it
was awkward to transport with the
boat , and near here they killed a wal
rus.
From Cape Vern they went on down
into the southwest angle of Jones
Sound , where they killed n seal ;
theuco cast along the south coast of
the sound , killing three bears at the
point noted on the map , to the penin
sula known as Cape Sparbo on the
map , about midway on the south sldo
of Jones Sound. Hero they killed
f mr > tnnulr.rwmi
killed four moro at the place Indi
cated on the chart , and wuro finally
stopped by the pack Ice at the mouth
of Jones Sound. From hero they
turned back to Capo Sparbo , where
they wintered and killed many musk-
oxen.
After the sun returned in 1909 they
started , pushing their sledge , across
Jones Sound to Capo Tennyson ; thence
along the coast to Clarence Head ;
( passing inside of two small islands
not shown on the chart , but drawn on
It by the boys ) , where they killed a
bear ; thence across the broad bight
In the coast to Cadogan Fiord ; thence
around Capo Isabella and up to Com
mander Peary's old house In Payer
Harbor near Capo Sablne , where they
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found a seal cached for them by Pan-
ikpah , 1-took-a-shoo's father. From
hero they crossed Smith Sound on the
Ice , arriving at Anoratok.
( Signed ) K. 12. PKAHY. U. 8. X.
HOHEHT A. HAHTLKTT.
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