The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-05
MORE DETAILED ACCOUNT
OF HIS DARING EXPLOIT
Praises the Esquimo,- Male 400 Photographs
Around PoIe.-Explains Many Ponts--Com-
ing Home With as Little Delay as Pos
sibIe--Taft CongratuIates Him


II think Rasmussen obtained somel
information regarding my expedi-
tons from the Eskmos who learned
| il from the two who were with me.
Rasmussen was there much later
| His information wiIl he published |
possibly tomorrow.
lea Active at Fole.
The ice around the POLE was
slightly more active than further
south. 1t driftel south and cast We
STAYED around the pole two days
making observations / do not claim
| that | put my finger or loot on the
| exact spot but tAlnK we have been
at the spot. When the observations
are figured again possibly there viii
he found slight errors, but am Ger
tain gunshot fred from where we
were would have passed over tl4
Ipole,
4 We planted the Stars and Stripes
at what we believed to be the pole,
but did not leave the flag with the
= staff. Instead. placed a small silk
hag in a cylinder with my card, a
record of the Journey, with late.
The drift Of ice may carry the lag
away. should have been glad to
have found land there
Will Submit Data.
II am prepared to pace my obser
vatigons before any geographical SO,
ciety in the world. think there is
no doubt about my obtaining authori
tative recognition. | have already
received kilograms of congratulation
from the geographical societies of
Sweden Norway, Denmark. Belgium
and other countries, while Amund
sen, Nordenskiold, Cagni and Lee
cointe, acknowledged my work. I
I Cffer my observations to science the
same as other have done and | accept
the responsibility
"The temperature at the pole was
T. minus IS. took 400 photographs
which show the American flag flying.
S EThese have not yet been developed" F"
Speed Was Normal.
r Questioned regarding his great
speed, Cook said; THE daily dis
h tance covered On the northward trip
t was slightly less than fifteen miles
g on the southwark trip it was ten
miles. This is not abnormal for the
Eskimos on ice, They often travel
+ fifty or sixty miles with dogs. One
n of our greatest advantages was that
2 / did not take the famine route. We
d had game a long time, perhaps a
y hundred miles. We feI the dogs
e we'll through the winter in Green
q land, ran them 100 miles, giving
e them fresh meat daily. Thus we
a. brought them to the polar sea fat
a. and we'll We had the best men ant
J. the best dogs.
I'VE lived entirely on dried mea
and beef tallow, reducing the foo,
e problem to q science The last trace
'e of animals we saw was a bear tracl
IS at SO degrees Afterwards, we d'C
" not even see life in the water, ex
Il eept algae. The drift of the ice dur
ing the entire southern trip wa
u slightly south of east; the wind wa!
'e generally south of west We fount
IS several OF Syerdrups old camps. TIL,
nr reason we Utilized the silk tents ol
u some occasions was because we wer'
NJ so exhausted that we mad not tn,
N strength to build st snow shed. w
- had figured and planned everything
iN SO there was no surplus weight 4
III carry. We lid not run short excep
when we went astrav.
at Ate All Kinds Ct Meat.
III During the expedition we ate a
ht kinds Of meat like musk OK bes
III but we ate bear or fox If the othc
ny was not obtainable Bveryihin
ne tasted good when one was starvinr
IS We brought ten dogs back, the other
sS' having been eaten by their COZ
ae panicns. We rsed the lasso, trap
as and bows and arrows to eaten game
ISL n. took two months TO learn how I
rc- trap moose"
Is