Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-30
his equipment could have made such


a journey.
DIR. Cook claims he went from lat.
itude 7Sa to 80 degrees and back to
rs degrees, altogether just 251a. Then
think that the best previous record
made by any explorer was total of
IL degrees.
IL cannot say whether the extra 107
miles each way that Cook says he
travelled would have kept me away
from the pole or not; the difficulty in
arctic travel as you proceed north In
creases not in arithmetic but in geo
metrical progression"
Cook Sure instruments are Safe.
New York, Sept 2s.-"My instru-
merits are not lost. am sure of that"
said DR.. Cook last night. II shall have
them brought here. My Eskimos are at
Etah and they know the value of the
instruments although they do not un-
derstand how to use them. They have
kind of sacred regard for them and
Will take good care of them.
IF had known what / known now,
should not have left either records
or instruments at Etah. Mr.. Whitney
told me and fully believed his ship was
going to that place, and he advised me
to leave my things in his care, to be
brought to New York on board his ship
much as in long sledge journey over
the rough land ice to Upernavik. did
not think at any moment of having
them forwarded by the Peary ship. If
had not met Mr.. Whitney l should
nave taken diem on the sledge with me
to Upernavik.
AS to the incident of the American
flag, which I had hoisted temporarily
at the pole and then brought back to
Etah with me, | gave it to Mr.. White
| ney on his special request. He had 1t
| IL his private trunk when he went
on board the Roosevelt but he was
not, according to his own statement,
permitted to bring it with him. He was
compelled to lake it out of the trunk
and bury It,"
VIII Not Condemn Peary Vet.
Asked as to what he thought of
Peary's action, DR.. Cook said:
II prefer to wait. If Peary had been
IN need of anything at Etaf. he could
have had anything of NINE 1 gave Mr..
whitney instructions to turn over any
lof my things to Peary or any white
man who required them and when he
came away to give them to my Esid-
mos.''
On the question of his equipment
Dr. Cook was emphatic that he pos
sessed all that war necessary. The
statement that the condition Of his
boots would show whether he had been
to the pole brought the following re-
ply:
We used Eskimo sealslin kamiks.
1 When the first pairs We're worn out we
gave them to the dogs to eat when we
/ reached Jones sound and there made
and we made others with which we
returned to Etah. When we arrived
there the boots were cornparafiveIy
new.
we built cur own sledges at An
notok. One of my sledges was given to
Mr.. Whitney"
When the subject of his relations
with Peary was touched upon, DR.
Cook said:
II never have had any trouble with
Lieut.. Peary. and cannot explain his
attitude. ] expect to meet him when he
returns, but whether / shall go to sec
him or whether he will come to me ]
cannot say. am prepared to meet any
charges he may formulate over his sig
mature"
Lecture Adds No New Facts.
DR.. Cook, in lecture last night un-
der the auspices of the Arctic Club OF
J America, at Carnegie hall added nc
essential facts to his narrative of the
discovery of the north pole, but sup
Piled added circumstances to those
passages which previously had beer
Il Ill,
Dr. Cook laid further emphasis or
the ample outfit he says he took witt
him, and insisted that the. sledges
, clothes and boots made BIZ the natives
at Annatook We're better than any thai
could have been taken to the north
from civilization. On the rst stage.
OF his journey, he said, he took ten Els.
KINDS with him. and might have hat
twenty for the asking. Six of these hi
turned back when within 100 miles o.
his goal and two more when within
, forty six miles, reserving Ftukishul
and Ahweelah. with twenty six dog
, and two sledges, for the last dash.
The collapsible canoe. which was no
mentioned in his first narrative. ant
, appeared subsequently in the lectur,
given at Copenhagen. was described
last night in 9ull. The frame Dr. Cool
sald, FORMED part of one Of the sledges