Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, December 9, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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O fast does the world
move nowadays that un
less one stops to reflect
a bit there seems noth
ing unusual In the fact
that Harry Whitney, the
New Haven sportsman,
should have gone hunting
to the place which not
many years ago marked the northern-
most limit of polar exploration. For
nearly a year he lived by choice al-
most In the shadow of that Cape Sa-
bine, where the men of the Greely
expedition starved to death in 1883.
Many times he passed on his expedi-
tion after game the wreck of the
•teamship Polari of the Hall expedi-
tion of 1871.
Tho adventures Mr. Whitney had
us a sportsman in this far north
where men before him had met death
as explorers he has set down in his
book, "Hunting With the Eskimos,"
which has Just been published, says a
writer In tho Montreal Herald.
Though the author seems to consider
himself primarily a sportsman and
the love of hunting strange game
was what kept him through all the
Arctic night living with the Eskimos
and as an Eskimo, his book is inter-
esting not as a sportsman's tale, but
a record of crowded adventure
and as a portrayal of Eskimo types.
Since Mr Whitney went as far
north as Eiah with the Peary expedi-
tion of 1908 and returned to civiliza-
tion on the Peary relief ship Jeanie
after having been the first white man
to greet the returning pole finder up
under the shadow of the north, hia
book comes as a sort of epilogue to
Peary's nam tlve of his achievement.
As an amateur Arctic explorer this
-New Haven sportsman has at least
one valuable qualification, the gift of
direct and simple narrative.
In company with two other sports-
men the author went north on the
Peary expedition's tender Erik, which
followed the Roosevelt on Us last and
successful dash through the ice lields.
His intention aad that of his friends
was merely to make the voyage to
Etah on the Greenland coast, get a
little Incidental hunting and then to
return to the world when the Erik put
back and the Roosevelt continued on
her way northward to Capo Sheridan.
Captivated by the Arctic.
Hut once at Etah, away down tinder
the foot of the mountains with the
Greenland Ice cap sparkling from the
summit of the range, Whitney caught i
the fever of the north. Though he
had not coine prepared to Isolate him- ;
self for a year and endure the hard-
ships of the Arctic night, Whitney
broached his determination to stick it
out with the Eskimos at Etah to Com-
tuander Peary before the Roosevelt
left for tho north on August 18. aud
Peary made him an allowai.ee o.
stores sufficient to keep hioi until the
return of the expedition's fender in
the following August should oCTer
passage home.
So it was that with a shack built
for him by the carpenter and the bos'n
of the Erik at Etah and the two mem-
bers of tho Roosevelt's crew left to
guard a cache of provisions at An-
nootok, forty miles away, as his sole
white companions in the land of sil-
ence. Mr. Whitney saw the Erik steam
away for the south on August 21.
Then he realized that he "was ma-
rooned in the most desolate region of
the earth, among a race who spoke a
strange tongue. There was no escape
for nearly a year."
Even the Eskimo companions left to
the sportsman were not many. Peary
had taken the pick of tho tribe north
with him on the Roosevelt, men, wom-
en and children, and the Eskimos
who remained began early the grilling
task of storing tho community larder
against descending night Whitney
threw his lot in with them absolutely.
Lived the Life of an Eskimo.
He straightway becamo an Eskimo
in his mode of life as far as he could,
and before he got away from the ice'
bound coast of Smith Sound, Whitney
had reason to count among his best
friends the simple-minded folk who
pass as savages.
The beginning of the Arctic night
found Whitney ard the Eskimo cr
munity all settled in Annootok, which
is the northernmost settlement of the
Arctic highlanders. The man who had
come to the country to hunt speedily
; discovered that necessity forced him
I to do little else.
The descending night found the Es-
| kimos feverishly active In the task of
j laying up a store against the winter,
vvhitney had either to remain alone i
:n his board and packing box shack |
at Annootok or to join the Eskimos :
in perilous expeditions over the Ice on I
foot up and down the coast. Meat \
was the quest, meat which would yield
light and fire and sustenance during [
the long months of darkness.
Some of tho women had outfitted j
the white stranger among them with a |
complete suit of furs, and though he ;
donned them early in October for j
weeks and months thereafter ho was
at hand grips with the cold hour upon
hour. The author said that during the
course of a bear hunt in which he
joined with the Eskimos and which
carried the sledga party far north into
Kane Basin, his thermometer, which
was only designed to register fifty de-
grees below zero. dropped to that
poiut and stayed there for <lays on
end. Whitney's feet were frozen re-
peatedly. his face cracked atid frosted
and the hours he spent in his sleeping
bag of heavy skins wore of misery
only a shade less acute than when ho
was exposed to the cutting blasts on
thu march.
Eskimo Optimism,
"Lsklmoa are optimists," he says.
"Pessimists have no place lu the
I
I
Arctic or any other far ill®
for that matter, where toft in
gers and difficulties are realty
ficlent unto themselves. Dbg|||
best with today and Providian
as circumstances will permllorui
future, the Eskimo gives nA
thought to tomorrow than ting
reliance that it will take cm of 1.1
self, just as yesterday did,
"A pessimist who constinj t;,
rles about the morrow
tlvely hypnotize himself to#n|j
these lands in a very short Hit,
simism has been the reala(,|
many casualties among Ik t;. f||n
plorers." -
The blizzards came contlmll)ti
complicate the life that Hn|
stranger had to lead during ly^,
ness. Some of the most in,:
sages in his book are those tH|(
pict the raging of the storm!
swept down from the north*
snow as hard as shot, destroy
obliterating everything in It#,
sage.
Eor days on end Whitman
dare to leave his shack at Aiiooigt
to go fifty yards to the neata^
because of the blinding furjiln,
tempest. He would have 1mm
a dozen steps beyond his o«iin,|
entrance. Yet so pressing ii||(j
of food among the Eskimoalm,
juttier*
to |
lull nil Ml'
illji n! Mi
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ill idol lit
nil other
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Ike tilt
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ANITS HER
LETTER
I PUBLISHED
ocr Benef _"it of Women who
,^,1,10 Sutiiiffer fro: m Female Ills
M v lOIinneapolis,
fro
Minn.—" I was a g-rcat
female troubles which
caused a weakness
end broken down
condition of tha
system I read so
imichi ofwhatLydla
E. Pinkliam's v eg.
etable Compound
had done for othet
suffering women I
felt euro it would
help rue, and I must
say i t did help ma
wonderfully. J[y
pains all left me, I
jrew/svstroncer, *and within three t^unlLi
tva-jsrvas a perfec tstly well woman.
"JUL'-'I want this s letter mailo public to
tween the ragings of the storiitl«|jBhiWO*'])^8!!hov vcz3W the ben^3flt women may derive
made venturesome excursion^ f^oiIjA * i[on*n m tydia Pinkharn's Vegetable
meat and Whitney accompany CM*!) it tta Com_ rn mpound _ Hrs. Joinsr G. Mold an
on many of these hunts. 2ill'{fl! p fl 5 Second S*t„ Xorlh, Hinneapolia,
One occasion when a party Mal¥^froti ™r=3{!"11,
the author was a member J ,kft ln« ,J 1 ted and genu.
sounVrV"
Sou id. they barely escaped Jih Wlf®}11 Yfpsssetable Corrmpound, which is made
a aetacbed ice floe. Finding MHWSMTelj froaaiiroots and herbs
selves separated from the pii;i fuf In* Ml lYcp'/Vomeu who suCerfrom those dis.
drifting downward toward tlim WIStasBsosIngillsjicc—
mcaiiln
ih|.
ticli*jl ...
siifTcr fr<
— nliar to th eirsex should
••• - J ; lose sight oof theso f acts or doubt
= ^ E. Pinkham'i
timp wjv
Ml Id 8® nil iln jf' 1
water, which would have
starvation, the members of Dili,•• uumwui a
ing expedition frantically jysfble Con*apound to reitore their
boundaries of their temporal;k. „ ,-r kImI* if_w™, ,
for a loophole of escape. FtajJfl C|"'v" loSnir" "•I^dT,ccSrit®
of the Eski mos d isco vered tit) |, g^dl i re |r She w OBWlll I Tea t ^yourle 11 or ass trictly
Utilizing small ice pans as fefaHi toilpci^fotOttflBlafidential. For 20 years sbe
party could escape to the *I|K lilg I side Women in
1 hat was one of the many " ~
that Whitney experienced.
Eskimo Endurance. —^—
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"Dies,"
1 he author never ceased tom
at the endurance of his frliiHI,
savages. L,ife with them is mim
a matter of nip and tuck that|||
kimos seem to have been hariltiili,
to almost superhuman stream
stamina. Their pursuit of nil
never ending, and at times thifcil
a whole colony will depend m||
success of one hunting expedllli,
Whitney saw his Eskimo#
panions take chances witlum
which were nothing short olnet)
madness; he found them reaJno
without sleep for three daysii^
eager to be on the move as lip
their legs would support them.tlifj
cannot lean on others for npi;
Whitney comments, "and nornnm,
them is so poor that charitym
his way. He must work if litii
live, and no man in the worljfii
so hard as the Eskimo or en|fm
little of life's comforts and luim'
Says Little About Cool,
Whitney tells only in the Iflu
outline of the return of Doctor
to Anootok, reciting how threw
gaunt as skeletons and dirty ^
beyond human semblance, cm
over the ice of Smith Sound plgi
their single sledge behind them ft
the subject of what Doctor Cotb , |" "in^u u(fd ... ,, , , ,,,
taw tow Um .. to I,], V u,,,™;
the New Haven sportsman [W^B,iefiiiM«| t)iis «and sour st- om:,ch for the last Uva
his consistent policy of sileti(i||| tin, He yean. - Ihave bee n taking medicine a l.'
simply says that the nush*t|ttilii#''*fl et*rd*! drags, but c«. «ul.| iic.1 uo nh.-f..'', •'
plorer stayed a few days in MH11" ,W'tok ®" * JWf tiui'^r. I will recommend
and then started southward foriiu tail)1 ^ ito 41ar5~?.TI|. tottyfl lends as tlie only thi- v
i«b settlement. WB i .'i'. iP8'!0" «',"Jach an„ ,c
On August 16 within a few^3^1 ^tS-et Couditio*-
a j ear after Mr. Whitney haj'<f. m Har-uuarry Stuckle^y, Maurh Chunk
marooned among the Ssltlnmbt hSl Potoqi 'm w
Hoosevelt bearing the Peary « «Gr. ^
' M-« .« L.v. ,50c. Heve*- r«'iM!nbunc. The
NcidQosirec,—-I never saw
an anything stop a cough
lik«?I l<e Simmcaons' Cou gh Syr-
up_qp. I use £ it every time
c o catch cc=Dld and it has
ne 3 ever fai led to do the
woo^ork. It i^revcnts pneu-
moooonia ancfcl consumption.
Prii rice 25c and 50 c. All
Drwwug Stores. Ma nufac- -
lur-mred by AA, B. Richards
l ledicinedDo., Sherman,Tex. f!
turned from the north and % fe tVbiT.Um^ScT'^^'^i^
"""'bM 111 tII iwo o .o: >uun1juiic*i'U.k. ^ to
Haven man took ship on her torji||.| itri^1
tzation. He transferred to the4
which was met coming up t|j^
Star Bay. and after some dni
hunting along tho coast of jJ
Land, during which time thai,,,
secured some coveted polar bei^
return to the world wns
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