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+.4+.+e+.+oeeee+ee+*ew+e1 Tlhe onquest By Dr. FREDERICK A. COOK + Copyright. 1909, by the New York i Herald Company. Registered In * Canada In Accordance With Copy * right Act. Copyright In Mex 1-co Under Laws of the Republic . of Mexico. All Rights Reserved ++ + 0-+040+ 0 .++00 HE expedition was equipped at Gloucester. Mass. All was ready on the evening of July 3. 1901. Ashore boys were testing their fireworks for the morrow of celebra tion. but aboard. as our vessel. the John R. Bradley. withdrew from the pier, all was quiet. ThOre were no visiting crowds of curiositV seekers. No tooting wvhistles si.nalized our de parture. An arctic expedition had been born without the usual public bombast. There was. indeed, no excuse for clamor. Neither the help of the gov ernment nor the contributions of pri vate individuals had been sought. The project was quietly given life and its expenses were paid by John R. Brad ley. Its destiny was shaped by the writer. Mr. Bradley was interested in game animals of the north. I was interested in the game of the polar quest. For the time being the business concerned us only. If the venture proved suc cessful there would be time enough to raise the banner of victory. If it fail ed none had the privilege of heaping upon us the unmerited abuse which usually comes to the returning polar traveler. In a brief month all had been pre pared for the peculiar mission. We had purchased a strong Gloucester :ish ing schooner. fitted with a motor, cov ered for ice and loaded down with suitable supplies for a prolonged pe riod. One morning the bold cliffs of Cape York were dimly outlined in the gray mist which scpeened the land. -A storm had carried so much ice against the coast that a near approach was im possible. and continued winds kept up a sea which madle it equally a difficulty to land on the ice. In Ice Free Polar Waters. Though anxious to meet the natives at Cape York. we were forced to turn and set a course for the next village. at North Star bay. At noon the sooty clouds separated. and in the north through the narrow breaks we saw the steep slopes and warm color of crim son cliffs resting on the rising water. Darting through the air were count less guillemots, gulls, little auks and eider ducks. We were in the ice free north waters, where creatures of the sea find a marine oasis in midst of a polar desert. This kind of coast extends poleward to the land's end. It is the abundant sea life which makes human habita tion just possible here, though land animals are also important. The people of the farthest north are crowded into a natural reservation by the arctic ice wall of Melville bay in* the south and the stupendous line of cliffs of Humboldt glacier in the north. Home of the Eskimos. Widely scattered in small villages, the northernmost Eskimo finds here a - good living. A nar-row band of rocky land between the laud ice and the sea offers grasses upon which feed ptarmi gan-, hare and caribous. Numerous eliffs and islands afford a resting place in summer for myriads of marine birds that seek the small life of the icy waters. Blue and white foxes wander every where. Seal. walrus. narwhal and white whale sport in the .summer sun, while the bear, king of - the polzur wilds, roams over the sea at all times. The ya'-br dodged the icebergs and danaer~ous rocks in the fog about Cape Athmo!. theni turned eastward to cross WVolsten holmen sound. As we neared Table mountain. Which gU:is Notth Star bay. many ntives carne out in kayaks -to meet us. Some were recognized as old :friends. There was .Myah, he of mianv wives: Oobhloiah, who hamd executed .Angoogibsamh. styled the villain by Gibson~ at Redelitffe House, and Pin 'coota. husbanmd of tiie queen, ini whose family ar-e to be found the only by brid children of the tribe. Later. Knud Rasmussen. a D)anish writer. living as a native among the people, camne aboard. With him we :got better acquainted during the win ter. 'Late at night a v-isit was made to the town of Oomanooi. There were seven triangular sealskin tents, con veniently placed on picturesque rocks. Gathered about these in large ntum 'bers were meu. women and childrmen. shivering in the midni&:ht chill. *They were odd looking specimens of humanity. In height the men aver aged but five .feet two inches and the women four feet ten inches. All had bhroad, -fat faces. ,heavy trunks and 'well rounded limbs. Their skin was h~Jtly bronzed. Men and women had coRi. black hair and brown eyes. The nose was short, and the hands and feet were short, but thick. There was not much news to ex change. After we had gone ever the list of marriages and deaths the luck of the chase became the topic of con versation. It was a period of monogamy. Myah had exchanged a plurality of wives for a largrer team of dogs. and there was but one other nuil in the tribe with two wvives. Women were rather scarce. Several mnarriageable men were forced to fore-( go the advantages of married life be of the PoleI + 0 Explorer's Own Account : + of His JoUrney to the + Goal ---Qinn fdve"- e ee SturesAmongdeEsimos ~ (FiRST ARICLE] + 004- 00 0+04+. .0o+ +-ce+e+e+etO- @+04 cause there wver*e not enough wives for all. By mutual agreement several men had exchanged wives. in other cases women had chosen other pariiiers. and the changes were made seemingly to the advantage of all, for no regrets were expressed. There was an average of three fat, clever children for each family, the youngest, as a rule, resting in a pocket on the mother's back. Dwellings of the Eskimos. The tent had a raised platform upon which all slept. The edge of this made a seat, and on each side were placed stone lamps, in which blubber was burned, with moss as a wick. Over this was a drying rack, and there was other furniture. On board the yacht there had been busy days of barter. Furs and ivory had been gathered in heaps in ex change for guns, knives and needles. Every seaman from cabin boy to cap tain had suddenly got rich in the gam ble of trade for prized blue fox skins and narwhal tusks. The Eskimos were equally elated wIth their end of ths bargain. For a beautiful foxskin of less use to a na tive than a dog pelt he has secured a pocket knife that would serve him half a lifetime. A woman had exchanged her fur pants, worth a hundred dollars, for a red pocket handkerchief, with which she would decorate her head and igloo for years to come. The midnight tide lifted the yacht on an even keel from her makeshift dry dock on the beach, and she was pulled DR. FREDERICK A. COOK. out into the bay and anchored for a few hours. Oomanooi was but one oi six villages in which the tribe had di vided its 230 people for the current season. To study the people, to further en courage tla game of barter and to en joy the rare sport of yachting and hunting in man's northernmost haunts we p'repared to visit as many villages as possible. In the morning the anchor was rais ed, and the yacht set sail to a light wind headed for more northern vil lages. Ducks were secured in abundance. Seals were given chase, but they were able to escape our craft. Nearing Saunders island a herd of walrus was seen on a pan of drift ice far ahead of the yacht. Two with splendid tusk-s were ob tained. and two tons of meat blubber were turned oer to our Eskimo al lies. An Eskimio Widow's Story. Amronie ! he Eskimn-o passengers p)aC ing the deck was aI widow. who, in) tears. 101h us !!- s!'ry of her life-a story whri e der-ed a peep into the comedy. and tragedy of Eskimo exist ene. She had arranged a den under a shelter of sealIskins among the an cor chains. We had offered her a large bed. with st ra w in it, and a p)lace between deck-s as a better nest for her br-ood of youngsters. but she refused. saying she preferred the open air on deck. She had come from American shores. and. as a for-ign belle, her hand was sought e-arly. At t hirteen Ik-wa intro duced her to a wVe'ded life not strewn with b,lubbier. li. wvas e-ruel and not always truthfuln. Two. girls gra(-ed their home. One was nowv married. When the young est was out of her hood. Ik-wa took the children and invited her- to leave, saying that he' had taken to wife htah. a plump maid ar a a good seamstress. Mlanee had neither advantage. but she kn"ew sometlhing oif hiumi:mn nature. and soon found annothe.r husband. a ood d''al older. 1~ hur eter than the frst. Their iire was ar hard on.e. for Nordinowa h was: !not a goo'd hunter. but h"ir hiiuwa wans .eaceabPle, qUiet and happy~.. Two '-hildren enlivened it. oth were at her- side on the aclw,- a ho of eight. the only deaf and dumb Eskinio Di all The land, ag a Thin, pale weak.ling oftr. Bioth had beenl oondeMned by 1l'c Eskimo law of the survival of the uIt test, the first because of insufficient senses and the second because it was under three and still on its mother's back when the father passed away. They were not to participate in the strife of life. But an unusual mother loved them. A few days before the previous win ter the old father, anxious to provide warm bearskins for the prolonged night, had ventured alone far up into the mountains. His gun went off ac(:i dentally, and he never returned. The executor of the brother of Ma nee's former husband was kind to her for the long night and kept fam ine from her door. In the sunner day she had been able to keep herself, but who could provide for her for the night to come? Her only resource was to seek the chilled heart of her former husband, and we were per forming the unpleasant mission of taking her to him as wife No. 2. When we later saw Ikwa he did not thank us for the trouble we had taken, but we had expected no reward. The speed of the yacht increased as the night advanced. A sntw squall frosted the decks, and to escape the icy air we sought our warm berths early. At 4 o'clock in the morning the gray gloom separated and the warm sun' poured forth a suitable wealth of August rays. At this time we passed the ice bat tered and storm swept cliff of Cape Parry. Beyond was Whale sound. On a sea of gold, strewn with ice islands of ultramarine and alabaster, whales spouted and walrus shouted. The grampus was out early for a fight. Large flocks of little auks rushed over on hurried missions. Entering Inglefield Gulf. The wind was light, but the engines pulled us along at a pace just fast enough to allow us to enjoy the superb surroundings. In the afternoon we were well into Inglefield gulf, and near Ittiblu there was a strong head wind and enough ice about to engage the eye of the lookout. We aimed here to secure Eskimo guides and with them seek caribou in Olrick's bay. While the yacht was tacking for a favorable berth in the drift off Kanga the launch was low ered and we sought to interview the Eskimos of Ittiblu. There were only one woman, a few children and about a score of dogs at the place. The wo man talked quickly and explained at some length that her husband and others were away on a caribou hunt. and she told us without a leading ques tion the news of the tribe for a year. After gasping for breath like a smoth ered seal, she began with news of pre vious years and a history of the for gotten ages. We started back for the launch, and she invited herself to the pleasure of our company to the beach. An Eskimo Trade. We had only gone a few steps before it occurred to her that she was in need of something. Would we not give her a few boxes of matches in exchange for a narwhal tusk? We would be de lighted, said Mr. Bradley, and a hand ful of sweets wvent with the bargain. Her boy brought down two ivory tusks, each eight feet in length. The two were worth $150. Had we g k<nife to spare? Yes, and a tin spoon was also given just to show that we were liberal. The yacht was headed northward across Inglefield gulf. It is necessary for deep sea craft to give Karnah a wide berth. There were bergs enough about to hold the water down, though an occasional sea rose with a sicken ing thump. The launch towed the dory, of which Manee and her children were the only occupants. Karnah was to be her future home. and as we nearied the shore we tried to locate Ik-wa. but there was not a man in town. Five women, fifteen children and forty-five dogs came out to meet us. The meni were on a hunting cam paign, and their location was not ex actly known. Attahtungwah, 31anee's rival, a -fat, unsociable creature, stood on a useful stone, where we chose to land, and did not accommodate us with footing on the same platform. A Thrifty Eskimo Camp. There were five sealskin tents pitch ed amiong the bowlders of a glacial stream. An immense quantity of n-ar whal meat was placed on the rocks andi stone~s to dry. Skins were stretch ed on the grass, and a general air of thrift was shown about the p)lace. Bundles of sealskins, packages of pelts and much ivory were brought out to trade and establish friendly inter course. We gave them,,sugar, tobacco and ammunition in quantities to suit their own estimate of value. The fat woman entered her tent, and we saw no more of her during our tay, for she did not venture to trade Ias did the others. 3Manee was kindly Itreated by the other village folk, and a pot steaming with oily meat was soon served in her honor. We were cor dially invited to p)artake of the feast, but had a convenient excuse, just hav ing finished a meal Would we not place ourselves at ease and stay for a day or two, as their husbands would soon return? We were forced to decline their hospitality, for without the harbor tlm~' was too much wind to keep the yacht waiting. Eskimos have no system of- saluta tion except :a greeting smile- or a p)art in~ look of regret. We got both at the saei& time as we stclppedt into the lanch anmd shoutedl goudhy. Abloard. the ena in wl ~as tol to p)ro reed t.o (ape. l:'betson1. 'The Wind aedi. :a fo-. an me] (ver fromi the inland ice aind blot ted out the hm udsca Pe down to ab)out a thousand feet, but under this the air was clear. Announcement! This being our twent -:i:th e::r of uninterrupted succcss, We wish it to be our "Banner Year." Our thousands of satisfied cus tomers, and fair dealing, is bringing us new customers daily. If you are contemplating the pur chase of -. Piano or Organ, w 4-te us at once for catalogs, and for our special proposition. Malone's Music House, COLUMBIA, S. C. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. BY Frank M. Schumpert. E.-q.. Pro bate Jud-ge. Whereas Laura P. Moore hati made suit to me. to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of Jacob D. Moore. These are therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and Creditors of the said Jacob D. Moore, deceased, that they ,be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, -to be held at Newberry, S. C., on the 18th day of September next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administra tion should not be granted. Given under my Hand, this 1st day of September Anno Domini. 1909. Frank M. Schumpert, J. P. N. C. EXCURSION RATES To New York and Return Via Southern Railway. For the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, New York. September 25 to Oteober 11, 1909. the Southern Railway an nounces round trip excursion rates as follows: Augusta, Ga. ................$26 35 Abbeville, S. C. 24 70 Aiken. S. C. ................ 26 05 Anderson, S. C. 25 00 Batesburg, S. C. ............. 24 85 Belton, S. C. ............... 24 25 Calhoun, S. C. .............. 24 85 Donalds. S. C. ............... 24 25 Easley. S. C. ....... 24 25 Edgefield, S. C. ............25 75 Graniteville, S. C. .........25 90 Greenville, S. C. .......---.23 80 Greenwood. S. C. ........... 24 25 Newberry, S. C. ............ 23 93 Prosperity. S. C. ........... 23 95 Seneca. S. C.( ...........25 00 Wahalla. S. C............. 25 30 Tickets on sale September 23rd to 30th i-nelusive. good returning until midnight October 10th leaving New York. Through Pullman sleeping cars and dining c.ar service. For further information apply to ticket agents Southern Railway, or, W. E. McG'ee. 'T. P. A.. Augusta. Ga. J. L. Meek, A. G. P. A, Atlanta, Ga , STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. Court of Common Pleas. Willie E. Stuck, in her own right and as Administratrix of the goods, chattels, rights and credits of Uriahi J. Stuck, deceased, Plaintiff, Against Jackson Stuck. William Stuck, Adam Fulmer Stuck, Lula Pearl~ Stuck, Peggy Elizabeth Stuck, Callie Boyd Stuck. and The Newberry Loan and Security Company, Defendants. By an order of the Court herein, I will sell~ to the highest bidder, be fore the Court House. at Newberry, S. C., within the legal hours of sale, on Monday, Salesday, October 4th, 1909, all that piece. parcel or tract of land lying and being situate in New erry County, State of South Caro lina, containing eighty three (83) cres, more or less. bounded now, or formerly. as follows: On athe North by lands of Ton Williams. on the as h: l.mds ot' A. K. Haskell and Lindsay D)ominiek. on the South by lands of Hi. W. Whitaker, being sepa rated thjerofrom by publie road, and n the West by .public road, known as the Mendenhall Mill road. same be ing- the tract of land conveyed to the said Uriah J. Stuck by G. B. Summer. Terms of Sale: One-half of the purchase money to be paid in cash, the balance in twelve months from day of sale. the credit portion to be secured byv bond of the purchaser and a mortgage of the premise; sold, to bear interest from day of sale unitil paid in full at the rate of eight per cent. per annuum. and the bond and mortage given .by the purchaser to provide for ten per cent. for attor ncev's fees in case of collecetion by an attorney or foreelosure. with leave o the purchaser to anticipate the eredit portion in whole or in p)art. Preobaser' to pay for pap)ers and eording same.[ H. H. Rikard. Master. *i Set 8, -1909. E LISf HE fastidious over with en1 these charac1 They are so positive the clothes which I last few seasons. W splendid things abc garmentr because praise. You must see thei a few to fully realize they are. To cap extremely high pric considered they are from refreshing Eng $20.00 1 BEwart The First Coog *ven' thoiugh not ievere, has tivememrane ofthe thr" * oughs the?kC!1 coe air s'd 0dightesu col. Cure tIe first lanugs. The best remedy - oes the esne It fe a chJiktafr&aadut.t 25 0 MAYES' DI We t of". go. and' h French button: and ses 100 pairs worth $5.oo a pair 100 pairs worth $4.oo a pair roo pairs wo,rth $3.00 a pair roo pairs worth $2.0o a pair 10o pairs worth $1.25 a pair Extra values and never o need money, must have it, ai line come and buy from O. K LE The Fair an I MODELS 14 young man will bubble busiasm when he sees eristics English models ly different from any of iave been seen for the e cannot say too many ut thes': smart English they're so deserving of m. You must "try on" how delightfully styled the climax they're not ed. Quality and style signal va'ues. Made lish and Scotch weaves to $35.00 =-Perry PA NY liof the Season, a tendency to irritate th~e ser.4 tcnigh before it has a c'ytnce to* ficate capilary air tubes of the !;Q.-ICK R EL IEF COC'GB it at the seat of tr. .uble an~d r ~rum MorpMne and is as are tr0 ~ntsa at RUGO STORE. )tr the Greatest Values Evar Shom . d q aaitv Casimnere waistband, patent s, tape covered crotch ~tseams, t wo pockets. d watch pockets. ~oing at only $2 89 ~oing at only $2.25 Toing~ at only . $r.79 ~oing at only $1.39 oing at only 97c. fered at such low prices. We d if you need anything in car TTN ER, I Square Dealer.