So far as the needs of my own personal expedition were concerned, I had with me on the yacht plenty of hard hickory wood for the making of sledges, instruments, clothing and other apparatus gathered with much economy during my former years of exploration, and about one thousand pounds of pemmican.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Taking the sledge frame work as a platform, a folding top of strong canvas was fastened, and spread between two bars of hickory from each end.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
We now came upon musk oxen and tried to fell them with boulders, and bows and arrows made of the hickory of our sledge.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook