Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 23, 1909, Page 10

‘Bu lected and Dog How the Wood and Iron were Se- Harness Made. EVERYBODY TURNED HUNTER To Improve the Last Few Days of Fading Sunlight—Chase of Shore Game—Hares and Caribou Baggesd for the Expedition—Dr. Cook Learned Much from iis Pre- decessors in Polar Search—At Noon on October 24 Every Man of the Party Sought the Open to Take a Last Glimpse of the Dying Day. Fourth Instaliment. THE OQONQUEST O?THE POLE. By Dr. Frederick A. Cook. (Copyright, 1909, by the New York Herald compsny. Registered in Can- ada in accordance with the Copyright Act. Copyright in Mexico under the laws of the Republic of Mexico. All Rights Reserved.) Storms now came up with such force and frequency that it was not safe to venture out in kayaks. A few wal- ruses werevcaptured from boats, then sea hunting was confined to the quest of seal through the voung ice, A similar quest was being followed at every village from Annootok to Cape York. But all sea activity would now sooh be limited to a few open aces near prominent headlands. The scene of the real hunt changed from the sea to the land. We had as vet no caribou meat. The little auks gathered in nets during the summer, and eider duck, bagged later, disap- peared fast when used as steady diet. ‘We must procure hare, ptarmigan and | veindeer, for we had not yet learmed to eat with a relish the fishy, liver- like suhstance which is characteristic of all marine'mammals. Guns and ammunition were distrib- uted, and when the winds were easy enough to allow one to venture out every man sought the neighbering hills, Francke also took his exercise with a gun on his shoulder. The combined results gave a long line of ptarmigan, two’ reindeer and sixteen shares. As snow covered the upper slopes theé game was forced down near the sea, where we co®ld still hope to hunt in the feeble light of the early part of the night. No Anxlety for Winter. With a larder fairly stocked and good prospects for othér tasty meats we were spared the usual anxiety of a winter without winter supplies, and Francke was just the man to use this game to good effect, for he had a way of preparing our primitive --ovisions that made our dinners seem quite equal to a Holland house spread In the middle of October fox skins were prime, and then new steel traps were distributed and set near the] many caches. By this time the Eski- mos had all abandoned their sealskin tents and were snugly settled in their wintéer igloos. The ground was cov- ered wilfi snow and the sea was nearly frozen everywhere. Bverybody was busy preparing fory the coming cold and night. The tem- perature was about 20 degrees below gero. Severe storms were becoming less frequent, and the air, though colder, was less humid and less disa- greeable. An ice fort was formed and ‘the winter sledging was begun by short excursions to bait the fox traps and gather the foxes. All these pursuits, with the work of building and repairing sleds, making dog harness and shaping new winter elothing, kept up a lively interest while the great crust which was to hold down the uly deep for so many months, thickened and closed. During the last days of brief sun- shine the weather cleared, and at noon on October 24 everybody sought the freedom of the open for a last glimpse of the dyving day. There was a charm of cclor and glitter, but no ene seemed quite happy as the sun sank under the southern ice, for it was not to rise again for 118 days. The Eskimos took this a to enter a trance of sadness, in ‘which the hereavement of each family and the discemfort of the year are enacted in dramatic chants or dances, But t6 us the sunset of 1907 was in- spiration for the final work in di a signal ing the shaping of the outfit wtih which to begin the conquest of the pole at sunrize in 1908. Most expedi- tieng have had the advantage of the lberal hand of a government or of an amiple private fund. We were denied both favors. But#we were not encumbered with a cargo of misfits deyised by home dreamers, nor was the project handi- capped by the usual number of novices, for white men at best must be re- garded as amateurs compared with the expert efficiency of the Eskimo in his own environment, Our food supply contained only the prime factors of primitive nourishment. Special foods and laboratory concoctions did not fill an important space inour larder. Nor had we balloons, amtomobiles, moter sleds or other freak devices. We id, however, have an abundance of the best hickory, suitable metal ani all the raw material for the sled and its accessories which was hendeforth to be linked to our destiny. The sled was evolved as the result of careful study of local environment and of the anticipated ice surface northward. We did not copy the Mc- Clintock sled, with its wide runners, which has been used by most explor- ers for fifty years. Nor did we aban- don the old fashioned iron shoes for German silver strips. What a Polar Sled Should Be. The cenditions which a polar sled must meet are tuvo complex to outline here. In a broad sense it seemed that the best qualities of the best wood Yukon eled could be combined with the local fitness of the Eski raft, with tough hickory flbre and sealskin lash- ings to make elastic joints. With plenty of native ingenuity to foresee and provide for the train of adaptabil- ity and endurance the possibilities of our sled factory were very good. For dog harness the Eskimo patterns was adopted, but canine economy is such that when rations are reduced to workable limits the leather strips dis- appear as food, To overcome this dis- aster the shoulder straps were made of folds of strong canvas, while the traces were cut from cotton log line. A beat’ is an important adjunct to every sledge base of operation. It is a matter of necessity, even when fol- lrwing the new coast line, as is shown by the mishap of Mylius Erickson; for if he had had a boat he would himself have returned to tell the story of the Danish expedition to East Greenland. Need for a boat comes with the changed conditions of the advancing season. Things must be carried for several months for a chance use in the last stages of the return. But since food supplies are necessarily lim- ited, delay is fatal. Therefore when open water prevents progress a boat becomes in the nature of a life pre- server. Foolish indeed is the explorer who ignores this detail of the problem. Transport of a boat, huwuver, offers many serious objections. Nansen in- troduced the kayak and most explorers since have adopted the same device. Tie Eskime canoe serves the purpose very well, but to carry it for three months without hopeless destruction requires an anount of energy which stamps the polar venture with fail- ure. Selecting a Boat. Sectional boa aluminum boats, skin fioats and r devices have been tried, but to all there is the same fatal objection of impossible transportation. It seems rather odd that the ordinary folding canvas boat has not been pressed into this service. We found it to fit the situation ex- actly, selecting a twelve-foot Eureka shaped boat with wooden frame. The slats, spreaders and floor pieces were utilized as par of sleds. The can- vas cover served as a floor cloth for our sleeping bags. Thus the boat did useful service for a hundred days and was never in evidence as a cumber- some device. When at last the craft was spread and covered, in it we carried the sled, in it we camped, in it we sought game, | the meat of which took th- place of exhausted supplies. Without it too, would not have returned. Preparatien of the staple food sup- ply is of even greater importance than means of locomotion. To the suc- cesg’ of a prolonged Arctic enterprise in transit sucoessive experience is bound to dictate a wise choice of equipment, put it does not often edu- cate the stomach. From the published accounts of Arctic travelers, it is impossible to select a satisfactory menu for future explorers, and I hasten to add that perhaps our experience will be equally unsatisfactory to subsequent victims. Nor is it safe to listen to scientific advice, for the stomach is the one organ of the body which stands as the autocrat over every other human sense and passion and will not easily yvield to foreign dictates. The problem differs with every man. It differs ‘with every expedition and it is radically different with every na- tion. Thus when De Gerlache forced Norwegian food into French stomachs he learned that there was a nation- ality in gastroncmics, Depending on Eskimo Food. In this respect, as in others, I was helped very much by the people who we, were to line up my forces. The Es- kimo is ever hungry, but his taste is normal. Things of doubtful value in nurtrition form no part in his diet- ary. , Animal food, meat and fat, is entirely satisfactory as a steady diet without other adjuncts. His food re- quires necither sait ror sugar, nor is cooking a matter of necessity. Quantity is important, but quality applies only to the relative propor- tion of fat. With this key to the gastronomics of our lockers pemmican. was selected as the staple food, which also served equally well for the dogs. We had an ample supply of. pemmi- can, made by Armour. of+ pounded dried beef, sprinkled with a few rais- ins, some currants and a small quan- tity sugar. T mixture was ce- mented together wyith heated beef tal- low and run into tin cans containing six pounds each This combination an American Indian. before as part of the stuffs in Arctic produects, but with us it w the whole bill of fare when away from game haunts was invented by It has been used long list of food- Only a few palate surprises were carried and these will be indicated in the narrative of camp life. The entire winter and night were spent with busy hands, under directicn of Eskimo and Caucasian ing nuity, in working out the clothing and camp comforts, with- out which we could not invade the forbidden mysteries of the polar.ba- sin. Although we did not follew closely either the routes or methods of our predecessors, we are neverthele: their ex- lures, were doubly indebted to them, f periences, includir our stepping stones The Fifth Instaliment of Dr. Cook’s Story will be printed in The Bulletin of Saturday, September 25; Entitled to Some Credit. While credit is being passed around, let not John R. Bradley, the man who backed plorer Cook, be forgotten. He furnished motive power needed and will publican g0 into history.—Springficgd Re- And You Can't Swat Him! When man tells you he wants to say s thing to you “as a iend,” vou know he is going to criticise you in a way tempt.—¢ your enemy would not at- ago Kvening FPost. To the i said to a man ti comparative, poverty del tively poor, Editor W i e I ightful? I am 1] % 1 and’ ,aq’m hear the truth, gm"on‘euh' quite blunt with and so don’l of ministering to men, or listening me. T.am not in society, t have the supreme felicity for a woman rarely sets her cap at a or man. I don’'t have to attend po idiotic entertainments, where all the. meh dress alike, looking lke waiters or undertakers, and all the,women are undressed necks and alike as to their . arms, shouldets. I don’t-Have to chatter, grimace, dance, egt and drink until 3 o'c woman break my would ever friends—my your oPinion?” lock in the merning. No condeéscend to heart, and ‘T have lots of books. NOw—what's My friend, who was a lawyer, an- New York, Sept. 8. swered forc: spoke most freel charge a fee for his opinion: der if he was entirely right? ibly that I was #du- ass. He and did- not even I won- PHILOSOPHER. Y. Sun. The Triumphant Cooks. It was Captain Cook who first sailed around the world; and it was Dr. Cook who first hitched his sled to the North pole. It is the cooks that rule the universe.—St. Cloud: (Minn.) Journal- Press. Fine Place for Him. W. T. St ta go to th ead says Me may yet have e North pole himself. ~And the civilized world hastens to remark: “Second the motion."=Pittsburg Gag- ette-Times. Fi ying From Them. Secvetar~ Ballinger claims to have come out of his row with Pinchot with flying colors, but he hasn’t exhibited the skins of the snakes he promised to kill.—Houston Post. in weuld cross the country on his ret; He ‘rgn:elt discussed such 'n t::g .;t woul ¢ a parade famous in th < nals of grand tours. He could not if he weuld avold saying things, ‘and even if he desired to stick to .Taft he would not be silent concerning “my policie: He would make sSome speeches that would shake the dry Loues, It is idle even in the face of the esident’s coming journey to cover up t! tact that there is a growing dis- position to look to Roosevelt's return as the signal for a break to progres- sive leadership, a restoration at Wash- ington of aggressive and courageous “come on” policies. The country teok th. president as a Roosevelt man. If there is a growing conviction that he is not of the Roosevelt metal it is only natural, that, as the real Roose- ver is barely 50 and full of fight, there sghould be a looking to the blown-in- the-bottle article—Des Moines (la.) Register and Leader. Other Kind of Kings. The Springfield Republican says that “all the kings in Europe might abdicate tomorrow and, as a sensation, it would fail” At the same time, four kings at certain moments have their value.—New Haven Courier. Gives It a Chance. George Fred Williams having an- nounced that he is done with politics for the present, there seems to be some hope for the democratic party in Mas- sachusetts also.—Providence Journal. Not a Roosevelt Principle. At any rate it was very bad form for Dr. Cook to go off there all by his lonesome and discover the pole with- out giving any warning.—Philadelphia North American. Rosj DRops Qpiury Morphine nor Miaeral, NOT NARCOTIC. ==GASTORIA GASTORIA ZorInfants sud Ohfiiren. 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