The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-07
COOK FOUND FAULT
WITH PEARY METHOD
Wrote on May % That Peary Had
Used His Large Stores to Barter
With The Natives.

Ottawa, Ont, oct. G., Captain Bcr-
nier Of the Canadian steamer Arctic
yesterday made public letter written
to him BY Dr. Frederick "A. Cook Oh MAY
Is and delivered to Captain Bernier on
September ] at Upper Navik, Green
land. The letter opens
My Dear Captain;
u have To write you the first lcttor
after being sealed behind ice barriers
for two years. II was yohr supplies 40
ISinuiy left in charge 81 Mr.. Whitney
which aided me greatly IN getting 10
Upper Nayik An my other property
bad been taken BY Peary under the
guise Of a relief station for DR.. Cook.
Murphy, the man in charge Of the sta
ton, however, was instructed not to en-
gage in any relief efforts, not to allow
EsNlmos to cross and search until
March OF the following year. 1900. Ny
large store Of supplies and my station
was used for barter with natives 20
satisfy Peary's commercial greed.
Fortunately we were able to work
out our problem without relief efforts
except as you offered We have pushed
into the boreal center and picked lip the
polar prize but the effort was danger
Gus beyond conception.
"The splendid assistance which you
have given and the hberality Of the
Canadian government in sending the
ship is happy contrast to the hind.
rance and injustice Of one Of my own
countrymen."
Describes Journey to Pole
Describing the journey to the Pole,
Dr. Cook says:
Starting from Annatok on February
ID. 1908, we crossed Ellsmere Land,
pushed along its western coast to the
polar sea, feeding ten EsISimos and 1903
dogs en- route on musk oxen and bears.
From SO north started with two
young Eskimos and 26 dogs pulling two
slei9hs and supplies for 80 days The
ice was fine after crossing 81 degrees.
Crocker's land was sighted and passed
and a new land found 10 the north Of
il extending IS degrees. Beyond no land
was seen. The Pole was reached April
~, 1905 The return was forced slight
" westward on the northward route,
hnt about s. degrees were driftcd east
and south, Fellow 81 we had drifted
with open water and an active pack.
we we're helplessly carried to the
west, unable to reach our caches along
Nansen's sound. We were pushed into
Prince Gustav sea with food and fuel
exhausted. Still unable to press east
ward, we went with the ice to the south
food and fuel now exhausted Polar
I.o..,e ,.a,.,r ~ .A,se xoen,,o = Z IL. .n~a,.
We then went into Wellington channel
hoping 10 be able to reach whalers in
Lancaster sound, but we were soon stop
ped by failing food supplies and young,
small ice.
with no game this short route TO an
early ship was no longer possible and
70 satisfy the pangs Of hunger we work
ed ID Jones sound. Here after long
run Of hard adventure by boat ana
sledge, a crnel necessity forced us into
winter cafp in September at Cape Spar
DO without fuel or food, ammunition OF
winter clothing, with no dogs no guns.
Cur situation was almost hopeless but
fortune came our way. Bows and arr
raws, harpoona, lances and other com
PIGMENTS we're made. The musk oxen
and the bear we're taken with lines. The
lance and knife secured small game.
Foxes were trapped, walrnses and seals
attacked and secured in our little fold
ing canvas boat. An underground dam
was built and the winter 81 l90s-09l
passed with taste Of everything save
fresh meat
~For we had not a fnorsel Of civilized
food, not oven salt. A new equipment
was devised and as soon as the sun Of
1909, rose over the hills Of North Devon
we started for Annatok IN February
1909 dragging dried musk oxen meat is
food and melted tallow rs fuel for
thirty days On om 'eigh Deep snow
had ice, open water and continued
storm made the return slow and ardu
ous. We reached Annatok after run
of hard luck on April 8. Here we were
met BIZ Whitney only to find that
Peary's men had misused our station
with III equipments Under the protee
ton 81 Mr. Whitney, we enjoyed good
health at all times"