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Show PEARY REFUTES ! IHE CLAIMS OF i EXPLORER COOK ISSUESLONGPROMISEO STATEMENT STATE-MENT IN NORTH POLE DISPUTE. SIVES STORY OF THE ESKIMOS The Statement la Signed by Peary, ' Bartlett, McMillan, Borup and Hen- j eon of th Rooeevelt Party Likl-mo Likl-mo Boya Clotely Questioned by All. ' IKntr.l ....lli. l. A.t ..f l-..nrr... n ll. y.,r I'.". I.y lh lP.irr Al.-llr I 'Ink. n ii.- ..in.- ..f ii,- i.ihi.ii.nn .,i ri.ai.. 11 HI..I.I, ki...,. nn New Yoik. Det. 12 Thn j fotiowlliK Htulellielit of t'ouimuml r ltolii.it K. lvry. whhh hu luhiulllid, loKi'thir wlih tlm arrotu panylim uinp, in the I Vary Aritle club In eupport of hla iiuili'iitlon that Dr l'Mik did not rearh thn north pole, la now mailu public for the II rut tlinn Thn alatiinent and map have been copyrlilitid by the I'nury An tic club INTRODUCTION BV PEARY. Huiim nf my reaaona for aaylnf that Dr. Cook did not go to the north pol will hn uiitlirntood by thoan who read thn follow In; atateiuenta of thn two Kaklmo boya who went with hlui, and who told tun and othnra of my party whern bo did ca Herernl Kakluioa who alarted with Dr. Cook from An ornlok In February, liiUH, wnra at Ktah when I arrived thern In Aiicuat. IDU8. They told in that Dr. Cihib, had with him, after thny left, two Kaklmo boya, or young man, two aledaea and inn twenty doge. Th boy were I took a ahoo and Ah pe Inh. I had known them from their rhllilhood. lino waa alniut elalileeu and the other about nlneiuen yeara of ao. On my return from Capo Hherldan and at th very flrat aettlement I touched (Nerka, nnar Cap Chalon) In Auiual, 11109. and nine daya before reaching Ktah, th Kaklmoa told mn, In a general way, where Dr. Cook had boon; lhat b had wintered In Jonea Sound, and that h had told th white men at Ktah that he had been a long with hi in. I took a ahoo and Ah pn-lan. aid that thla waa not ao. Th Kaklmo Kakl-mo laughed at Dr. Cook'a atory. On reaching Ktah. I talked with thn Kaklmoa Ka-klmoa thera and with th two boy and naked them to dearrlbu Dr. Cook'a lourney lo mnnihera of my party and oiyaolf. Thla they did In th manner Hated below. !IHIn-.ll n K. I'KAIIT. aigned Statement of Peary, Bartlett, McMillan, Borup and Henaon, In Regard Re-gard to Testimony of Cook'e Two Ciklmo Boya. Th two Kaklmn boya. I tiaik a ahno and Ah pe-lah, who aeeompniiled Dr. CiMik whll hu waa away from Annra-Ink Annra-Ink In I'Ji'K and W), were ipinailoned leparately and Independently, and were corroborated by I'anlkpnh. thn father of one of them (I look a ahoo), who waa personally fnmlllnr wllh the flrat third and th Inat third of their (ourney, and who aald that thn route for the remaining third, a ehown by theui. waa aa doarrlhed to hltu by bla on after hla return with Dr. Cook. To go inor Into detalla: On of the boya wna railed In. and. with a chart on th taliln before hlin. waa naked to allow whera ho had gone with Dr. Cook. Thla he did, pointing out wllh hla finger on thn map, but nnl making any umrka upon It. Aa he went nut, Ihn other boy rame In and wn naked to allow whern be had gone with Dr. Conk. Thla he did. aluo wlihout making any marka, and Imllcnled the earn route and th earn detalla aa did the flrat boy. When hn wn throimh. I'anlkpnh, the father of l-took a ahno. a very Intelligent In-telligent man. who waa In the party of Kektmoa that came bark from Dr. Cook from the northern end of Nan-aen'a Nan-aen'a atralt, who la familiar aa a hunter hunt-er wllh the Jonea Hound region, and who baa been In Commumler Teary'e varloua enpedllloua for aome fifteen ye-nre. came In nnd Indicated the anme localttlee ami detalla aa the two hoya. Then the tlrat tioy waa brought In again, anil with a pencil he trured on the map their route, tuemliera of our party writing upou the chart where according to the boy'a ataleiuent, they had killed deer, bear, aome of their doga. acul, walrua and uituk oxen. The aeioud boy waa then called In and the two went over the churl together, to-gether, the aecoild boy auiiKeatlug aome chengee aa noted hereafter. During the taking of thla tallinouy, It developed that Dr. Cook had toldi theae hoya. aa he told Mr. Whitney and Hilly I'rltrtmrd. th rabln boy. that they muat not tnll Commander' lVary or any of ua anything about j their Journey, and thn boy atated Dr. Cook bad threatened them If they , ehould tell anything. i Th narratlv ot tboaa Eaktno la aa followa: f , They, wllh Dr. Cook, Franck and, nine other Kaklmoa, loft Anoratolj croaaed Hmlth'a Hound to Cape Hahlm. alept In Commander I'eary'a old boim In I'aynr llnrbor, then went throng! Hire atralt to lluchnnan bay. After I few marchea Franck and three Kakl nun returned to Anoratok Dr. CiHik. with th other, then proceeded pro-ceeded up Flagler hay, a branch nf Hurhiinun bay, and croaaed KlUa-mere KlUa-mere l.nnil through Ilia valley paaa at thn head of Flagler bay. Indicated by Cnmtunmler I'enry In lNDH, and ullllied by Hverdrup In Ht'.iD. to th head of Hverdrup'a "Hay Fiord" on th weal aid of Klleamer Land Their rout then lay out through thla fiord, theme north through Hvurj drup'a "lleuerka Hound" and Nanaen atrult. ( On their way they killed muakoiea and bear, nnd mad rachea, arriving eventually at a point on Iho wnat aide of Nanaen atralt (ahor of Axul Mel-berg Mel-berg Land of Hverdrup), eoutb of Cap Thumaa Hubbard. A cache waa formed her and th four Kklmo did not go beyond thla point. Two other. Koolootlngwah and Inughlto, went on one more march wllh Dr. Cook and th two bun. helped to build I lie anow Igloo, Una returned without Bleeping. ITheao two Kaklmoa brought back a teller from Dr. Cook to Francka. dated the aeveuleenth of March. Th Iwo men rejoined the other four meg who had been left behind, and th all returned to Anoratok. arriving May 1. Thla Information waa obtained not from the two Kaklmo boya, but front the all meii who returned nnd iron Franckn hlmaelf, and waa known U ua III the aummer of ISiiH, whan tb Itnoaovolt Aral arrived at Ktuh. Tin Information la Inaerled here aa aupple mrutary lo the narrative of the twi boya.) After aleeplng at the camp when) th laat two Eaklmo turned back. Or. Cook and th two boya want In i northerly or northwesterly direction with two aledgee and twenty-odd doji, one or more march, whan they . countered rough Ice and a lead of optn water. They did not enter thla rouih Ice, nor croaa the lead, but turned weetward or aouthweitward a horl dlatance and returned to Heiberg Land at a point weat of whar they had left th cache and whar the four men hid turned back. After being Informed of the boya' narrative thua far, Commander Peary laggeited a aerlee of queetlon to be at to the boye In regerd to thle trip jrem the land out and back to It, I Old they croaa many open leada or eiuch open water during thla time? Aae. None. pjd they make any caohee out en 1 loaf Ana. No. with how many aledgea did they itartf Ana. Two. How many doge did they havet Ana. Did not remember exactly, but aome-ihlng aome-ihlng over twenty. How many aledgea did they have when they got back to land? Ana. Two. Did they have any provlalona left on their aledgee when they came back to land? Ana. Yea; the aledgea atlll had about all they could carry, ao they ware able to take but a few thlnga from the cache. From here they went aouthweet along the norihweet coaat of Heiberg Land to a point Indicated on the map (Sverdrup'e Cape Northweat). From hare they went west acroaa the Ice, which waa level and covered with anow, offering good going, to a low Island which they had aeon from the ehore of Heiberg Land at Cape Northweat. On thla Island they camped for one eleep. From thle Island they could eee two landa beyond (Sverdrup'e Ellef Ring. nee and Amund Rlngnes Landa). From the laland they Journeyed toward the left-hand one of theae two landa (Amund Rlngaa Land), paaalng a email laland which they did not visit. Arriving at the ehore of Amund Rlngne Land, the Eaklmoa killed a deer ae Indicated on the chart. The above portion of the statement state-ment of the Eskimo boya cover the period of time In which Dr. Cook clalme to have gone to the pole and back, and the entire time during which he could poaalbly have made anv attempte lo go to It. If It la auggeated that perhape Dr. Cook got mlaad and that he reached the pole, or thought he did, between the time of leaving the northweet coaat of Heiberg Land at Cape North, weet, and hie arrival at Rlngnea Land, where they killed the deer, we muet then add to th data of Dr. Cook'a latter lat-ter of March 17th, at or near Cape Thomae Hubbard, the aubaequent four or five aleepa at that point, and the number of daya required to march from Cape Thomae Hubbard to Cape Northweat (a dlatance of aome slaty nautical mil), which would advance hie date of departure from the land to at leaat the 29th of March, and be prepared to accept the claim that Dr. Cook went from Cape Northweat (about latitude eighty and a half degree de-gree north) to the pole, a dlatance of five hundred and seventy geographical mllee. In twenty-aaven daye. After killing the deer tbey then traveled trav-eled south along the eaat aide of Rlngnea Rlng-nea Land to the point Indicated on the chart, whore they killed another deer. They then wont eaat acroaa tbe aouth part of Crown I'rlnc Ouatav ana to the Booth end of Heiberg l-and. then down through Norwegian bay, where they aecured aome bear, but not until after tbey bad killed aome of their doga, to the eaat aide of Ore-hntn Ore-hntn laland; then eaatward to the lit tle bay marked "Kld'e Fiord" on Sverdrup'e Sver-drup'e chart; then aouthweet to Hell' time and Hlmmon'a peninsula. Here for the flrat time during the entire Journey, enept aa already noted off Cnpe Thnmaa II. Hubbard, they encountered open wnter. On thla point th boya were clenr, emphatic, and uniiliiikiible. They apent a good deal of time In thla region, and finally abandoned their doga and one aleilge, look to their boat, erosard Hell' data to North Kent, up Into Norfolk Inlet, then hack along tbe north roaat of t'olln Archer I'enliiBtiln to Cnpe Vera, where they obtained freh elder duck rgga. Here they cut the remaining aledge off. that la ahortened It, aa It waa awkward to transport with tbe boat, and near here thuy killed a wal rus. From Capo" Vera tbey went on down Into the aouthweal angle of Jonea Hound, w li.-re they killed a seal; theacu east along the aoutb coaat of tbe aound, killing three bear at the point noted on the map, to the penln-aula penln-aula known aa Cape Hparbo on the mup, about midway on the south Bide of Jonea Hound. Here they killed aum muak oien and, continuing uat killed four tnoro at the place Indicated Indi-cated on the chart, and were finally topped by thn pack Ice at the mouth of Jonea Bound. Prom here they turned back to Cape Hparbo, whore they wintered nnd killed mauy niuak-oien. After the aun returned In 1909 they atarted, puahlng their aledgu. acroaa Jonea Hound to Cape Tennyson; thence along the coaat lo Clurence Head; (paaalng Inalde of two email Inlands not shown on th chart, but drawn on It by the boya), where they killed a bear; thence acroaa the broad bight lu tb coaat to Cadogan Fiord; tlionc nround Cape laabella and up to Commander Com-mander I'eary'a old house In Payor Harbor near Cape Halilne, where they found a seal cached fur them by Pan Ikpun, 1 took a ahoo s father. From here they croaaed Bmlth Bound on tbe Ice, arriving at Anoratok. IBlgned) It K I'KAKY, II N. IUIUHHT A. I1AKTI.KTT. Mr H. . Kooaevelt. II II M'MII.I.AN, tlKllltllK lUUlUP. MATTIIUW A. 1IKNHON. (MM D) |