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ative and I think it is tho best remedy
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m thirty days of any other kind of
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Bv Dr FREDERICK A COOK
Copyright 1909 by the New York
Herald Company R 31stered In
Canada In Accordance With Copy
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Plie Cook expedition vis equipped at
Gloucester -Mass and was iwnl to start
on July 3 1107 Or Cooiv and Kuilolph
1VancKe veie put ashoie at AnnootoK
Ueinland with ample sttma and during
the winter made pi epi ration- toi the
olai dasli Ju Fol li 1W t tie main
expedition started tor tlie pule with elev
en men JO doss and eleven heavily load
ed bleds Going a little north ot west
the patty on March Is leached the north
ern end ot iluibttiK lsland Heie the ex
pedition divided six men returning The
teal race to the pole now began On
eh IS twenty six miles weie made
and the next day twenty one Then two
more ot the men returned leaving only
two young Eskimos to aceompjn ur
look with two loaded sledges and
dogs On March 20 sixteen miles
were covered twenty nine miles on the
lilst twenty two the following day and
atterwaid Jor several days an average ot
seventeen or eignteen Near the northern
eilge ot Grant Land a great open lead wa
encountered which was crossed with
some pei il on the young ice Some days
later after a seveie storm the ice split
open under the igloo and Dr Coolt in his
sleeping bag sank Into the crevice behirf
dragged to safety by the young ICsUimos
The advance was halted by stoims in
one of which the dogs were buried and in
another the men themselves To the west
a new land named Bradley Land by
Cook was sighted extending from bS de
grees 20 minutes to S3 degrees 51 minutes
and close to the one hundred and second
meridian Dr Cooks own account of ms
dash from Bradley Land to the pole is
given belowJ
VER tho newly discovered coast
linos was written Bradley Land
in honor of John 11 Uradley
the honefactor of the expedi
tion As we passed uorth of this land
there was nothing substantial upon
which to lis the eye
There was at no time a perfectly
clear horizon but the weather was
good enough to permit frequent nauti
cal observations
Thus day after day the marches
wore forced the incidents and the po
sitions were recorded but the advou
tures were promptly forgotten in the
mental bloaoh of the nest days effort
The uight of April 7 was made notable
by the swing of the sun at midnight
for a number ot nights it made grim
faces at us in its setting A teasing
mist drawu as a curtain over the
nor rn sea at midnight had given
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FREDERICK A COOK
curious advantages for celestial stag
ing setting into this haze we were
unable to determine sharply the ad
vent of the midnight sun
Now the great bulk was drawn out
egs shaped with horizontal linos
drawu through it Again it was prey
ed into a lasin with tiaming fires
burning behind a curtain ot trusts
blue at other times appeared like a
huge vase and it requited veiy little
imagination to tee purple and violet
flowers
The change was ofr niw magic
but the last dNpi r imtriahly a
face distorted itces ot men or ani
mals woii mide to sim mir fancy
We bad therefore lolloweil the suns
northward advance I ioai it- tiiM poop
at midday above the m ush i e of tht
polar gateway to its weep of the
northern ice at midnight From the
end of the polar niglii late in Fobru
ary to the fi of the di uhie days and
midnight -tins ve lied c reed a trait
through daikuoo blond hardening
tempeiaiuif snd oer breaking ir
regularities if rn ui v is world of
ice to an at - tin mile- the pole
Now r nil i
at inidiighi
quite ii
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i ji sun unmistakably
iud its ikv glerv was
in1 to el liie of shiv
ioii ui April S placed
cam a tsie si dig roes i min
utes longiiude 11 1 iegiees J minutes
In spile of what seemed like long
marches we had advanced only 10G
miles in nine days Much of our hard
work was Iju in circuitous twists
around troublesome pressure lines and
high irregular fields of very old ice
The drift ice was throwing us to the
east with sufficient force to give us
some anxiety but with eyes closed to
danger and hardships the double days
of fatigue and glitter quickly followed
one another
The temperature ranging between
36 and 40 degrees below zero F kept
persistently near the freezing point of
mercury and though the perpetual
Btin gave light and color to the cheer
less wastes we were not impressed
with any appreciable sense of warmth
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Bradley land Passed Steam
From Frozen Seas Half the
Food Allowance Used Mad
dening Effect of Polar Glit
ter Despair of Ahwelah
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would take us to the pole in thirteen
days There were food and fuel enough
to risk this adventure
In the diary of the succeeding days
doings there appear numerous tabu
lations of work and observations In
the new cracks the thickness of the
ice was measured The water was ex
amined for life Atmospheric surface
water and ice temperatures were tak
en the barometer was noted the
cloud formations weather conditions
and ice drifts were tabulated
I watched daily for possible signs
of dangerous failure in strength for
serious disability now meant a fatal
termination
A disabled man could neither con
tinue nor return but every examina
tion gave another reason to push hu
man endurance to the limit of the
strain of every fiber and cell The
hatd work which followed under an
occasional burst of burning sunbeams
brought intense thirst
Forcing the habit of the camel we
managed to take enough water before
starting to keep sufficient liquid in the
veins for the days march but it was
diihcult to await the melting of the ice
at camping time
In two sittings evening and morn
ingeach took an average of three
quarts of water daily This included
the tea aud also the luxury of an oc
casional soup There was water about
everywhere in heaps but it was in
crystals and before the thirst could
be quenched several ounces of pre
cious fuel which had been carried
thousands of miles must be used And
still this water so expensive and so
necessary to us ultimately became the
greatest bane to comfort It escaped
through the pores of the skin satu
rated the boots forced a band of ice
under the knee and a belt of frost
about the waist while the face was
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ledeid the sunbeams seemed lo make
the frost of the air pierce with a more
painful sting
There was a weird play of orgies
seemingly most impressive at this
time clouds of steam rose from the
frozen seas in marching over the
golden glitter snow scalds the face
while the nose is bleached with frost
In imp a grip of the knife left pain
ful burns from cold metal To the
frozen linger the water was hot With
wine spirits the tire was lighted while
Dil delighted the stomach In dreams
heaven was hot the other place was
cold
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All nature was false We seemed
to be hearing the chilled flame of a
new hades In our hard life there was
nothing genuinely warm Tho congen
ial appearances were all deception but
leati offered only cold comfort There
was no advantage in suicide
Wo should have onjoved this curious
experience hut with endless bodily dis
comforts combined in aeig muscles
and an overbearing langui n here could
be no real joys from the glories of na
ture The pleasure was reserved for a
later retrospect
We now changed our working hours
from day to night beginning usually
at 10 and ending at 7 The big march
es and prolonged hours of travel with
which fortune favored us earlier wore
no longer possible Weather condi
tions were more important in deter
mining the days run than the hands
of the chronometers
When the storms threatened the
start was delayed and in strong blows
the march was shortened but in one
way or another we usually found a
few hours in each turn of the dial dur
ing which a march could be forced be
tween winds It mattered little wheth
er we traveled night or day all hours
and all days were alike to us for we
had no accustomed time of rest no
Sundays no holiday no landmarks or
mileposts to pass To advance and ex
pend the energy accumulated during
one sleep at the cost of our pound of
pemmican was the one sole aim in
life
The observations of April 11 gave
latitude 87 degrees JO minutes longi
tude i3 minutes ID seconds Tho pack
disturbance of Bradley Land was less
and less noted in the northward move
ment The fields became heavier lar
ger and less crevassed
We had now passed tho highest
reaches of all our predecessors and
had gained the inspiration ot the far
thest north for ourselves The time
was at hand however to consider seri
ously the necessity of an early return
Nearly half of the food allowance
had been used In the long marches
supplies had been more liberally used
than anticipated and now our dog
teams were much reduced in numbers
A hard necessity had forced the cruel
law of the survival ot the fittest for
the less useful dogs were fed to the
steady working survivors Owing to
the food limits and the advancing sea
sou we could not prudently continue
the outward inarch a fortnight longer
We had dragged ourselves 300 miles
over the polar sea in twenty four days
Including delays and detours this gave
an average of nearly thirteen miles
daily on an air line in our course
There remained an unknown line of
100 miles before our ambitions could
be satisfied The same average ad
vance which we had made on the pack
nearly always incased In a ma oS
icicles from the breath a necessary
part of our hard lot in life and we
learned to take the torture philosoph
ically
From the eighty seventh to the
eighty eighth paiallel we passed for
two days over old lee without pressure
lines or hummocks Theie was no dis
cernible line of demarcation for the
fields and it was quite impossible to
determine if wc were on land or sea
ice The barometer indicated no ele
vation but the Ice had the hard wav
ing of glacial uc with only
superficial otvva es The water ob
tained from tliK uas not but all
of the upper surface of the ice of the
polar sea make- similar water The
nautical observations did not com to
indicate a drill but nevertheless the
combined tabulation do not warrant
the positive assertion ot oil her land or
sea for this area
The ice gave i cheering prospect A
plain of purple and blue ran in easy
undulations to the limits ot vision
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without the usual barriers of uplifted
blocks Over it a direct air line course
was possible Progress however was
quite as difficult as over the irregular
pack The snow was crusted with
large crystals An increased friction
reduced the speed while the surface
too hard for snowshoes was also too
weak to give ji secure footing Tho
loneliness the monotony the hardship
of steady unrelieved travel were now
keenly felt
It is not often that mans horsepow
er is put to tho test as ours was We
were compelled to develop a working
energy to the limit of animal capacity
Day after day we had pushed along
at the same steady pace over plains of
frost and tlnough a mental desert
As the eye opened at the end of an
icy slumber the fire was lighted little
by little tho stomach was filled with
liquids and solids mostly cold enough
to last for the day for there could be
no halt or waste of fuel for midday
feeding We next got into harness
and paced off the days pull under the
lash of duty Wo worked until stand
ing became impossible longer in light
winds shorter in strong winds but al
ways until the feet became numb and
heavy
Then came tho arduous task of build
ing a snow house In this the eyes no
longer able to wink closed but soon
the empty stomach complained and it
was filled up again not with things
that pleased the palate only hard fuel
to feed the inner fires while the ear
sought the soft side of ice to dispel
fatigue no pleasure in mental recrea
tion nothing to arouse the soul from
its icy inclosure
To oat to sleep to press one foot
ahead of tho other was our steady vo
cation like the horse to the cart but
wo had not his advantage of an agree
able climate and a comfortable stable
at night
Words and pictures cannot adequate
ly describe the maddening influence
of this sameness of polar glitter com
bined with bitter winds extreme cold
and an overworked body To mo there
was always the inspiration of antici
pation of the outcome of ultimate suc
cess but for my young savage com
panions it was a torment almost be
yond endurance Their weariness was
made evident by a lax use of the whip
and an indifferent urging of the dogs
They were however brave and faith
ful to the bitter end seldom allowing
selfish ambitions or uncontrollable
passions seriously to interfere with the
main effort of the expedition
On the morning of April 13 a strain
of agitating torment reached a break
ing point For days there had been a
steady cutting wind from the west
which drove despair to its lowest
reaches
No torment could be worse than that
never ceasing rush of icy air Ahwe
lah bent over his sled and refused to
move
Ilis dogs turned and looked in
quiringly I walked over and stood
by his side Etukishuk came near and
stood motionless staring blankly at the
southern skies Large tears fell from
Ahwelahs eyes and piled a little frost
of sadness in the blue of his own shad
ow for several minutes Not a word
was uttered but I knew that each felt
that the time had come to free the fet
ters of human passions Slowly Ahwe
lah said Unne sinig pa
It is well to die beyond Is
impossible
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