Arizona republican., 1909-09-04

. that l was standing on the pole.
 My feelings-well I was too tired to really feel any sensation l planted the stars and stripes in the ice field and my heart grew warm when I saw the flag wave in the wind"
 How does the north pole Iook?'' was asked.
 Well" said Cook smiling" "it piece: there is nothing to see but ice. ice. no water, only ice There were more holes here than at the eighty-seventh degree, which shows there is a movement and drift here; but this and other observations l made afterwards-when I got more settled
 stopped two days at the pole and assure you it was not easy to say goodbye to the spot.
 As I was sitting at the pole could not help smiling at the people who on my return would call the whole cXpedi- ton a humbug. l was sp;e the people would say that I had bought my two witnesses; that my notebook with my daily observations had been manufac- tured on board this ship. The only thing I can put up against this is what the York Esklmos have told Knud Rasmussen. Let the skeptics who dis believe my story go to the north pole. There they will find a small brass tube which I buried under the flag That tube contains a short statement about my trip. I could not leave my -f-ff orI q one
 Perhaps" the explorer added drily, T should have stayed longer had it not begun to freeze us in our idle ness. The Eskimos were uneasy and the dogs howled fearfully.
 "On April 2S I again turned my nose southward, which was much easier, as you cannot turn your nose in any other direction when you stand at the pole"
 Describing the return journey. Cook said: Fortune now smiled. We did twenty miles per day until we reached the OminOus eighty seventh degree. Then I felt the ice moving eastward, carrying us with it. A terrible fog swept around us and kept with us for three weeks. We got no further than the eighty-fourth degree. Then began a heavy walk toward Heiberg's land and another three weeks of fog. When that cleared I saw we had drifted southeast to Ringnesland, where We found open water and towering ice which stopped our way eastward.
 We now began to suffer hunger. Our provisions becoming exhausted
 
 entered Ringnesland and on June 20 found the first animals on our return bear and seal We shot a bear. Now our goal was the whalers at Lancaster sound. We followed drift ice to the south, eight miles a day, but were stopped by pack ice at Wellington channel, which was impossible either by foot or sledge. Here was lots of game, but we did not dare shoot it. We had only taken a hundred bullets to the pole and now only fifteen were left.
 "We went into Jones' sound after walrus and bears and found calm water We met polar wolves with which some of our dogs made friends and ran away.
 we spent udN ana nlSnI Tn an open boat ten miles from shore. This lasted two months. while storms of ten ragged over our heads. At last we got ashore again, but had no fuel and were obliged to eat uncooked food.
 The next day we found fuel, and what feast we had. But We suffered much hunger during this period One night a bear came and stole our food. We had many fights with muskoxen which attacked us. Our best weapon against them was the lassO."
 The story quotes Cook as saying in conclusions: Say that the day we reached our provisions stored at Etah was greater day than April 21. long to get back to civilization, to move among fellow men. I long to press my wife to my heart I am the happiest man living. Tell the whole world I thank God I am back"
 Some hoped the Hans Egede would reach port tonight. Dr. Egan prepared a welcome for Cook, with fireworks from deck of the Fedora. The quaran- tine station signaled that gale was in progress and that it was not probable that tie steamer would reach her des- tination before tomorrow. King Fred erick will have an audience with Cook tomorrow and decorate him with the Danish gold medal awarded for merit