Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-10-15

September 18th and returned to the
boat, gasoline launch, named
Bclshcy. which lay in the water at
the foot of the glacier. We reached
the launch on September 18th. hav-
ing Travelled twenty-six miles or more
on the top OF the glacier from the
place we quit climbing. on September
18th.
Doctored Entries.
"On September 10th when at our
first camp returning from the glacier
dcctored and changed the entries
therein from and including September
9th down TO and including Septem-
her 18th. These changes were made
under the orders of DR.. Cook. From
the 18th to the 18th was written a
the first camp returning on the night
of the 10th and from he 10th TO and
including the 18th, was written in our
last camp returning on the evening OF
the 18th and written solely under the
dictation of Or. Cook, and just as he
said. From and including September
9th down to the end OF the diary on
November 9Th the entries therein are
my own. They cover the actual facts
and were not dictated TO me by any
lone
DIR. Cook first told me to stop my
diary on September 12tn, when We
were in our 5th camp going up the
glacier. and at or near the point which
Dr. Cook claimed as the top Of Mt.
Mckinley. This point was within
sight of us at the time. DR.. Cook
stated at this time and place that the
same conditions existed there as did
exist on the top of Mt. Mckinley and
directed me to stop my diary until
further orders.
Photographed at Top"
At this time he had been to the top
Of the point claimed by the doctor as
1.-THE top OF the mountain and the doc
tor had taken a photograph OF the
point with me standing on the top
thereof. with the American flag in my
hand The photograph TO which re-
fer is shown on page % of the doc
tors book. entitled To the Top of the
Continent before mentinoed. The
jagged marks on the apex of the snow
in that picture and shown on the
bottom of the picture up to the granite
rock forming the top of the point are
my foot marks and those OF Doctor
Cook Ny best recollection is that
this is as far as DR.. Cook and ! went
to the top of this point together. We
did not take our bags with US TO the
top OF the point. having left them down
in the saddle above the glacier. We
then both went down from the point
to where our bags had been left. The
doctor took the American flag out of
the bag and handed it to me and
sent me back 10 the top Of the point.
and told me to hold it there on the
end OF the ice axe which did.
The doctor then with his camera
took the picture shown opposite page
227 which picture is designated as
the summit of Mt Mckinley in his
work. To the Top OF the Continent.
Summit Twenty Miles Away.
The truth being that the summit
Of Mt Mckinley was over 20 miles
distant in an air line from the point
where my picture was so taken. ac-
|cording to the scale on DIT. Cooks map
shown between pages 152 and l5S in
the book referred to above. I then
came down with the flag to where Dr..
Cook was standing with his camera.
and /. made the remark that the eight
PEAKS on the other side Of this point.
had they been photographed. would
nave shown in the picture. but the
picture was taken al such an angle
they did not show.
This picture is referred 20 in my
diary and is shown in said dairy d.
the page just preceding the date ap-
pearing therein As September and
on the pages following September
u. These peaks were so sketched
and numbered by me when 7 as IN
the camps opposite them where II
could have a fne view 81 them The
camps where - sketched the peaks
are the camps marked upon ny draw
INK Exhibit C. hercunio attached. as
tho sixth and eighth camps when We
~efe going up the glacier.
when We we're IN the saddle near
che point where I vas photographed
! made adraVinr % Vhat named