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VOLUME XXXV.
CONCORD. N C MONDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1909.
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Cook's Own Thrilling Story of the Return from the North Pole.
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One of the Most Absorbing Descriptions of Adventure Ever Written.
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IThe Conquest
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By Dr. FREDERICK A. COOK
I CopyrijHL 1909, by th. New York
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The Return Begun.
Pack Drift Ac-iveNev-er
Changing Simenea
Friendliness of the Dogs.
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frequently poshed under the bag. and
sccasJooally a cold snout toucoea
or warm skin with a rude awake-in.
We kred the creatures, bowerer. and
admired their superb brute strength.
Their adaptability was a frequent top
ic of conversation. With a pelt that
was a guarantee against all weather
conditions they threw tbemselTes down
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.TJRINO the first hour of April 23
backs were turned to the pole
and to the sun. Our exploring
ambition had been thoroughly
satisfied. There were few glances
backward.
The eagerness to solve the mystery
had served Its purpose, and the mem-
cry of the adventure for a time re-
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balance this a still more westerly
course was set.
At this time the never changing
sameness of the daily routine was
again felt. The novelty of success and
the passion of the home ran were no
longer operative. The scenes of shiv
ering blue wearied the eye, and there
was no Inspiration In the moving sea
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Long Delays by Open
Water Drilling on
Floes Dogs Sacrificed
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N my wakeful watches to get a
peep of the sun at just the right
moment I was kept awake during
much of the resting period, and
for pastime my eyes wandered from
snorting dogs to snoring men. During
one of these Idle moments there came
tlt'U hnd Ixm-d (MwsUile. aud our u
tlon cvul only bv guMd at.
The ti)iUlcnlii(t lni)ii;it ilili
forced, tho fplrits were ri-nO
to the versi vf extUirtkui. N thai
the otJv"t of our trip bad Uccti atxiia
pllslUHl uiuh 01 the lmruttve was
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a solution of the utility of the dors gone. At times It acetued as If uur
tall, a topic with which I bad been at Ufa's work had bca acroinpiltM-d and
play for several days. It Is quoted to hTe lain down fur the final alen
here at the risk of censure, because It would bare been easy, but the feeble
DE. COOK'S KOTJTE TO AND FROM THE POLE.
at;
CHARLOTTE. N.C.
W. Trade Street, near Postofflce,
We saTe rent and give it to you.
Cotton GiDDing by Electricity
mained as a reminder of reckless dar
ing. As we now moved along the feel
ing of elation slowly subsided with
the realization of the prospective diffi
culties of the return. Though the mer
cury was still frozen and the sun's
neroetual flush was lost in a frigid
blue, the time was at hand in lower
latitudes for the Ice to break and drift
southward.
With correct reasoning all former
expeditions had planned to return to
of Ice to eladden the heart. The ther
mometer rose and fell between 80 and
40 below aero F with a ceaseless
wind. It was still very cold. The first
of May was at hand, bringing to mind
the blossoms and smiles of a kindly
world, but here all nature was nar
rowed to lines of Ice. The sun circled
the skies in lines of glaring, bnt its
heat was a sham and its light a tor
ment.
With weary nerves and compass In
DAXXBH TOSTTtDO BOAT TOBJOWI WXI-
OOMIMO PR COOK AT BKAOBM.
to the sweep of winds In open defi
ance of death dealing storms. They
willingly did a prodigious amount of
work each day, and then as bedfellows
they offered their fur as shelter and
bones as head rests to their two footed
companions. We had learned to appre
ciate the advantage of their beating
breasts. The bond of animal fellow
ship had drawn tighter and tighter in
a long run o" successive adventures.
And -now there was a stronger reason
than ever to appreciate power, for to
gether we were . seeking an escape
from a world which was never intenu-
ed for creatures with thumping hearts.
Much very heavy ice was crossed
near the eighty-eighth, but the endless
unbrokenelds or tne nortnwnra trans
were not again seen. The weather
changed considerably. The tight Cut
ting winds from the west Increased in
force, and the spasmodic squalls came
at shorter intervals. The clear purple
and blue of the seas were gradually
changed to light gray, and a rush of
frosty needles came over the pack for
several hours each day.
Could Brook No Oelay.
The Inducement to iSeek shelter In
cemented walls of snow and wait for
better weather was very great But
such delay forestalled certain starva
tion. Under fair conditions there was
barely food enough to reach land,
while even short delays might easily
jeopardize our return. We could not.
therefore, do otherwise than to force
ourselves against the wind and drift
with all possible speed, closing the eye
to unavoidable suffering.
With no alternative, we tried to per
suade ourselves that conditions might
be worse. . """"
The eighty-seventh was crossed, the
eighty-sixth was neared. but there
came a time when both mind and body
wearied of the whole problem of forced
resolution.
The hard work of igloo building was
now a thing of the past only one had
been built since leaving the pole, and
In It a precious day was lost wuue
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THE MUSK OXEN OF JONES SOUND.
is a typical phase of our lives which
cannot be illustrated otherwise. Seem
ing trivialities were seized upon as
food for thought. Why has the dog
a tall at all? The bear, the musk ox,
the caribou and the' hare each In its
own way succeeds very well with but
a dwarfed stub. Why does nature in
the dog expend its "best effort In grow
ing the finest fur over a seemingly
useless line of tail bones? The thing
Is distinctive, and one could hardly
conceive of the creature without this
accessory, but nature in the arctic does
not often waste energy to display beau
ties and temperament. This tail must
have an Important use, otherwise It
would soon fall under the knife of
frost and time. Yes! It was Imported
Into the arctic by the wolf progenitor
of the dog from warmer lands, where
Its swing terved a useful purpose, In
fly time. A nose made to breathe
warm air requires some protection In
flres of the homing passion kept the
eye open.
At the Eighty-fourth Parallel
On MnvUl the Bkycleared long enough
to give us a set of observations. Wo
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were ou tne eiguiy-iourcu paraiiei.
near the ninety-seventh meridian. The
new lands were hidden behind a lo
mist. The Ice was much crevassed
and drifted eastward.
The pack was sufficiently active to
rive us considerable anxiety, though
pressure Hues and open water aia noi
then seriously impede our progress.
There remained on the sleds scarce
ly enough food to reach our caches un
less we uveraged fifteen miles dally
On the return from the pole to here
we hnd only been nble to make twelve
miles dHlly Now our strength, even
uifder fulr conditions, did not seem to
be equal to more than ten miles. The
OUtlOOK was iar iruuj uui""
though the sight of the cleared say
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the far north No animal feels this infused new courage uuo u-u
sLortcomlng as much as man. The I and Ahwrlah.
dog supplied the need with his talL At
the time when I made this discovery a
Trying to make the best of our bard
MAUAM.
In this course to find fr foofl
sod fuel. Th rrmli whalers eittrr
Lancaster autd and tou U at t'rt
L4otMld The tllntsti. to this llnt
was shorter than that to t.rwiiUml.
and by this rou! I iwn't'd that I could
raturu to Eurtn during tlw " yrar.
190H.
Passing through liawl a.und I-
tween the KlngtiM IaihU N-srs and
la wrra s-ur-d. si1 slomly mm
moved southward ov-r NrfsUn I jr
Into Wellington cIibiuh-I. TIm ta was
small, tb-ra was tnncb oi-n a, and
proTfs was slow, imt tu drift car
ried us along.
At rtonei r bay we wre atoppd by
a Jam of small W ott whl h sldllig
was lropolllo. rnM to wmi ror
the ice to move txvnt! no lrg sain
was here securel. rroM-d i early
July to Jouhi tiiid. lif-n. agsfn. no
big gaiw f.miid. Tlwr was umi h
open water, and tU flillng canvas
boat spread for u.
Unable to f-Hl tb. d'.gs. tlwy pm
given the fwdotn of Ibrlr wild tri-
genttors, tho w.ls.
One sWl was Ifft here; the other was
taken aimrt and plrl tn the l"t.
Then followid a -king and er1ls ad
venture by boat and sled, during which
our last ammunition i eiperll In
securing bird for f-1 ATter that,
by oom1 lines and ulltJgmhota. birds
were still capturod
Early In 8'ittenitr-r we wern lel
qn the ahonni of Ilamn bay with neither
food, fuol nor ammuultlnn. New im
plements were shaiied, and wa return
ad westward to Carw HMirl to
a place to pitch a wluter camp. An
underground den aa built of atones,
bones and turf, and Uu our primitive
weapons we foucht the walrus, tl
bear, the munk o etui other aultnals.
Thus fol, fuel and were acur.
ed. and death by f amino was averted.
The winter and the ilghi of 1110
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We have so much power that we are not afraid to run
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We have all the equipments of a modern ginnery, and
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land and secure a line of retreat by d jonely march ahead of the the atmospheric fury changed the face cold wind charged with cutting cryt-
Mav 1. We could not nope to ao bo , . COntlnued. Progress was I of the endless expanse or aesoiauon.
nntll earlv in June. It seemed, there- -.-..iifnornrv. We had- passed the I The little silk tent now boused us suffl-
fore, probable that the ice along the eljfhty-ninth and eighty-eighth paral- ciently from the icy airs. There were
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outskirts of the polar sea would be
much disrupted and that open water,
small ice and rapid drifts would seri
ously Interfere with our return to a
footing on the shores of Nansen
sound. All of this and many other
nihinttes were carefully considered
before, but the conquest of the pole
was not possible without nsas.
Famine and Frost.
We started earlier than all other
ir BRnirants. and no time bad been
lost en route. If misfortune came to
na it eould not be because oi wasieu
delay. In the
cuciiko v -
lnst flavs of the onward rush to suc-
oa tr war neither time nor oppor
tunity to ponder over the Dltters of
cmhaannent remorse, dui uuw,
southern skies under which were home
and all for which we uvea, me
tn wmed Indescribably long. In
cold sober thought, freed of the Intox
ication of polar enthusiasm, the dlffl
eniti darkened in color. We now
yaW tnat XOe trumn oitt6u w
paign was not the taking of the pole.
flQt f onr fitness as boreal con-
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i e flnat . battle for life
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lels. The eighty-seventh and the eighty- still 60 degrees of frost, but with hard-
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'tr flrar dava. however, passed rap- .Ith TOnM goon be under foot, and
tcik eie weather and favorable I f.- .nt of the new lands should corn
ice long marches were made. p,., action.. These hard fought times
We aimed to return along the one were days long to be remembered, but
hundredth meridian. There were three only tne marks of the peneU now re-
innrtflrit objects to be gained by a maln to tell the story of a suppressed
somewhat west of the north txistenre.
The increasing easterly p-iiow Feelina For Dogs.
nrnniri thus be counterbalanced. Th lonr strain of the march had
We hoped to get near enough to the glTen a brotherly sympathy to the trio
new lands to explore a part of the of numail stragglers. Under the same
a rA b wider belt would be swept trn1n WHS made the descent to canine
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w jrr nroved aulte active, iT1r thA ftarara ferocity of the woll.
and we were quickly carried eastward nad taken us Into their community,
hevond our dally drift allowances. On We now m0Ted among them without
oeyuuu ,.j 191 I . . AimA mnA their
April 30 the peaomecer ickioo. neanng a gruui wvw-,
hv nnr svstem of dead reck-1 OTmr.Bthetlc eves followed until we
onlng. which was usually correct, we were made comfortable on the cheer
should have been at latitude 87.59, leaa sn0ws. If our dogs happened to
longitude 10a The nautical observa- piaced near enough they edged .up
tiona gave latltuaa t.i, longuuuo anfl enciroea us, t
We. were therefore drifting eastward tlielr animai fires.
Raleone e-room dwellinR near Urtth Increasing ep aad to .counter- theIr preSence frost coTered nowtware
PodStMUl. See E.T. White, 14-tf. ,
ened skins and Insensible nerve fila
ments the torture was not so keenlj
felt
The steady diet of pemmlcan aid tea
and biscuits was now entirely satis
factory. We longed for enough to
give a real filling sense, but the ration
was slightly reduced rather than in
creased. The change In life from win
ter to summer, which should take
place at about this time of the year,
was In our case marked only by a
change to shelter, from the snow
house to the tent, and our bed was
moved from the soft snow shelf of the
Igloo to the hard, wind swept crust
Preserved the Ratio.
They have been married six years.'
"Does she think as much of him as
she thought she would V
"Yes: her affection seems to grow."
"Well, bis salary has been advanced
every year."
tals brushed the pack. Each dog had
his back arched to the wind aad his
face yelled with an effective curl of his
tall He as comfortably shielded
from Icy torment by an appendage
aoapted to that very purpose.
A Heavy Snowstorm.
On May 6 we were stopped at 6 a. m.
by the coming of the gloom of an un
usual cale. The wind naa oeen sieauy
and strong all night, but we did not
heed its threatening Increase of force
until too late. It came from the west
as usuaL driving coarse snow with
needle points, the Ice about was old
and hummocky, offerlrj a difficult line
of march, but some shelter. In the
strongest blasts we threw ourselves
over the sled behind hummocks and
gathered new breath to force a few
miles more.
Finally, when no longer able to force
ne dogs through the blinding drift, we
aousht the lee of an uplifted block of
Ice. Here suitable snow was found
for a saow bouse, and a few blocks
were cut and set, but the wind swept
them away like chips. The tent was
tried, but It could not be made to stand
hi the rush of the roaring tumult. In
sheer despair we crept Into the tent
without erecting the pole. Creeping
Into the bags, we then allowed the
flapping silk to be burled by the ann
lug snow. Soon the noise and discom
fort of the storm were lost, and we
enjoyed the comfort of an Icy grave.
An efficient breathing hole was kept
ooen. and the wind was strong enough
to sweep off the weight of a dangerous
drift A new lesson was thus learnea
In fighting the battle of life which
afterward useful.
Several days of ky despair now fol
lowed each other to rapid succession.
The wind did not rise to the full force
of a storm, but It was too strong and
too cold to traveL The food supply
was noticeably decreasing.- The daily
advance was reduced. - - With such
weather starvation seemed Inevitable:
Gemr was moved nearly every day
but ambition sank to the lowest ebb.
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lot, a straight course was set iot
the mu6k ox land of the toner cross
ing. .
At thvelghty -third parallel we found
oorselred to the west of a large tract
extending southward. The Ice chang
ed to small fields. The temperature
rose to zero, and a persistent mist ob
scured the heavens.
With a few lines on paper to regis
ter the life of suffering, the food for
mas and dog was reduced io three-
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ment for the return
On Feb. 19. IVJ. we started with a
remodeled sled and reaeb'-d our camp
at Annootok to tha mlddla of April.
Here I met Mr. Harry Whitney and
told him of our conquest of the pole.
Because a ship was to come after
Mr- Whitney to take btm direct to
home shores, moat of my instruments
were Intrusted to hU care. Anilmu to
gain a few months to the return home,
I proceeded by sled over laod and sea
southward to Upernavlk and from
there onward to Copenhagen by Dan-,
tab steamers. . '
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