Review of reviews and world's work . or CapeColumbia on February 22, 1909, and thathis party consisted of seven white , fifty-nine Eskimos, one hundred and forty dogs,and twenty-three sledges, the proportion ofmen to sledges with Cook being one man, onesledge, and ten dogs per sledge. In Pearyscase it was about three men to one sledgeand six dogs per sledge. The shrinkage ofthe procession in each case is remarkable: COOK. Men. Dogs. Sledges. Fcbniarv ]0. 11 lO.*? 11 March IS. lUOS. .-> .57 7 March 21, 1:> :? 26 2 Iole 3 10 PEARY. Men. Dogs. Sledges. Fcbniarv 22. 1000 66 140
Review of reviews and world's work . or CapeColumbia on February 22, 1909, and thathis party consisted of seven white , fifty-nine Eskimos, one hundred and forty dogs,and twenty-three sledges, the proportion ofmen to sledges with Cook being one man, onesledge, and ten dogs per sledge. In Pearyscase it was about three men to one sledgeand six dogs per sledge. The shrinkage ofthe procession in each case is remarkable: COOK. Men. Dogs. Sledges. Fcbniarv ]0. 11 lO.*? 11 March IS. lUOS. .-> .57 7 March 21, 1:> :? 26 2 Iole 3 10 PEARY. Men. Dogs. Sledges. Fcbniarv 22. 1000 66 140 2. March 1, 1000 24 *? 19 Sixth stage 16 100 12 Tenth stage 20 70 10 8(r tlS 9 60 7 Between February and March i8 thegame must have been extraordinarily plenti-ful on Heiberg Island, for the bag averagedover three musk-oxen, eleven hares a day,while seven bears were thrown in as an ex-tra. This abundance of game enabled themto stand at Lands End fresh and fit, andwith unreduced supplies. DR. COOK: THE MAN AND THE 4-1 r,. DR. COOK DECORATED BY HIS DANISH Sverdnip at I)r. Cooks left.) It was only four months march, but itenabled me to test tlie quality of the menand dogs needed for the final dash to thePole, By the elimination of the less fit, Ihad of the best dogs in the ArcticCircle and two splendid young Eskimos,Eltukishuk and Ahwelah, fine strapping ladsof twenty or twenty-one years of age, splen-did teamsters, and full of all Arctic lore. What do you think of the Eskimo as aman ? Compared with our best men, he is noton a level, but compared with many of ourcivilized people he is their superior. Thelast scientific treatise on the Eskimo will as-tonish you not a little by the evidence itgives as to the cranial development, whosewits are sharpened by a constan-t conflict w ithnature in her sternest aspects. They havetheir limitations, but their love of berg andtheir skill to read the face of the sky andthe face of the sea are very rem
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