Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05

ing reached the north pole is correct.
Naturally 1 cannot place the official
seal Of acceptance on DR.. COOK 8
achievements that is for the head of
his country to do. Cook has cabled the
president of the United States We
are now awaiting Mr.. Taft's reply, and
we hope 1t will express official recogni-
ton"
Daugaard Jensen the Danish inspec-
tor of North Greenland and the high
est official in that region, who spent
two months in the company of Dr.
Cook, is satisfied regarding the relia-
bility of DR.. Cooks statement that he
reached the north pole.
Description of Journey
Apart from his own observations,
Inspector Jensen conferred with the
Danish polar explorer, Knud Rasmus-
sen, who obtained from the Cape York
Eskimos a description of DR.. Cooks
Journey Rasmussen is the only Euro
pean who fully understands the Ian
guage of the Cape York Eslkimos, from
among whom DIR. Cooks companions
We're selected.
Rasmussen told Jensen that the
stories of these Eskimos confirmed DR..
Cook in all the external details of his
narrative. They corroborated the
statement that the journey ended quite
voluntarily no ice or other obstacles
preventing it's continuance.
Dr. Cooks reply to his critics is as
follows: He has the records of his eX-
petition, together with certain scien-
tific data and proofs which he will
submit to the world of science for it's
judgment. He is confident the verdict
will be a substantiation of his claims.
Questioned on the skepticism regard
ing his story arising from the fact
that he was the only white man to
take bearings and observations as well
as being the only white man in the
party, he answered that with other
we'll authenticated expeditions one
scientific man of the party took all OF
the observations.
Left Flag at Pole
DR.. Cook left at the pole in a metal
cylinder a small American flag and the
records of his voyage. He did not have
q staff on which to erect the flag, nor
could the stability of a small staff have
been assured.
At Minister Egan's luncheon DR..
Cook looked like an athlete in splendid
training He discussed his trip and
answered all questions put to him.
Among his interrogators were the Rus
sian minister, who was an eager seek
er for information, and the representa-
tive of the Associated Press.
Dr. Cook is especially desirous that
the public refrain from accepting all
alleged interviews by the various
newspapers here as authentic; and,
while it will not be fair to him to at
tempt to quote the recollections of his
conversations as . verbatim interview,
he has no objection to recital of some
of the main points he mentioned.
DR.. Cook is of the opinion that the
United States may fairly claim, for
whatever it may be worth jurisdiction
by right of discovery over tine farthest
north region of the world.
He said he regretted to hear that
some, newspapers had Incorrectly rep
resented him as claiming to have dis
ooveved 10000 square miles of new
land. What he had done was to set
tie the nature of a region of about that
extent. He was only able to see for
an average of about fifteen miles on
each side of his route.
Most NortherIy Land
The most northerly land he saw was
between "a and Sc degrees. There
were two bodies Df land at this point
east of his route. One was about 1000
feet high. He could not say whether
they were islands or not. as he was
not equipped to make a detour to eX-
plore them. DR.. Cooh said he was