The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-23

down by me not to tell anyone where
they had been. / should like you To
have Henson here and cross examine
hi yourself. Hensoa's testimony is
entirely founded on hearsay.
Q.-Knowing that ship was coming
north this summer Tor whitney, why
did you not wait for that ship and
come direct To New York. instead OF
going to South Greenland and sailing
from there to Copenhagen?
Al knew the Danish government
ship would get me home before Whit
ney's ship.
Q-what instruments did you nave
with you from Cape Thomas Hubbard
and back?
His Instruments.
A.--Sextant. artificial horizon, three
compasses, three ehronometer watches
thermometers. barometers and a pedo-
meter.
.Q.-was your determination of tho
pole solely by an observation of the
suns altitude or did You take oDsc'ya-
tions of the pole star IL hours apart,
and. by the determination of the celes-
tial pole midway between the two po-
sitions. prove the accuracy of your
position on the terrestrial pole?
Allow are you going to take an
observation by the polar star when
you have a continuous sun? There Is
no night: YOU cannot have any stars;
there is no darkness.
Q.--What kind of observations did
you make at the pole, and how many.
and what was the altitude of the sun?
Ave have told that the altitude
of the sun gave us our positions: that
is all there is to say about that. We
made regular astronomical obserSa-
fions. such as would be made by the
compass and other instruments. We
merely made the nautical observations
that a captain would have made aboard
a ship.
Q.-Will you describe in detail any
single observation taken by you at the
north pole. with the exact figures of
the results and the corrections ap-
piled?
All in Detail.
A.-Not at this present moment. We
will describe every one of them in de-
tail when they go to the University
of Copenhagen. They will go there
within two months. Ire entire records
win be delivered to the university and.
after that, they viii go to everybody
that wants to examine them.
ON your original narrative, as
published In the New York Herald,
YOU said: The night of April was
made natable by the swinging of The
sun at midnight over the northern ice.
Our observation on April placed the
camp in latitude s6.35. longitude s4.-.'
The astronomers say that i'm the lati-
tude YOU mentioned the midnight sun
would have been visible on April /.
and that. If you saw it for the iir4t
time on April I, you must have been
$50 miles from the pole. insteau :. -s..
as you supposed. Therefore. to have
reached the pole on April Il. you would
! have had to travel SO miles daily. What
! is your explanation OF the apparent
discrepancy?
An the first place. that indicates
/ the point have taken. that nobody
/ can pronounce judgment on n matter
t of this kind until they get the complete
! records The north horison at Kid
/ night had been so obscure that we
! could not tell whether the sun was
! below the horizon or above it. We
were not making observations at mid
night. Therefore. this statement Is
based on the fact that We have said
/ that it was possible To see the sun on
midnight of that day. l have not looked
! through the Herald's story as it has
| been written i'm full. My imp, esslon -
| that We were absolutely unable To see
the sun the midnight before that.
| The horizon was obscured.
/ Q.-Why was il necessary to en-
/ trust your records to Mr.. Whitney un-
/ der pledge of secrecy?
/ Al don't know that there is any
t thing further 10 say about that. ask
Mr.. Whitney. / do not think l am
bound to divulge TO Mr.. Peary the
I news of our work. / am perfectly
willing to give il to the world and
/ have given il to the world. There is
no reason why should give any news
| to Peary. I am perfectly willing To
/ give it to the world and | have done
! SO.
| 4 deluge of kilograms and cab.f
messages poured In upon DIR. Cook to-
day and all of them turned over to
/ his secretary. DIR. Cooks first fun
day on his home shores brought 10
him the first unpleasant taste OF fame
Visitors began 10 arrive today They
came on all sorts of errands, with all
sorts of urgent messages calculated
To get an interview.
There Was a regiment of publishers
agents. They got only as far as DIR.