The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-15

Nards aScenning the mountain upon Sept 15, and returned to the boat, gasoline launch named Bolshoy, which lay in the water at the foot of the glasier. We reached the launch on September 19, having travelled 26 miles or more on the top of the glacier from the place we quit climb ing on Sept 15
 "Cn Sept Is, when at our first camp returning from the glacier, doctored and changed the entries therein from and including September 9, down and including September 12. These changes were made under the orders of Dr. Cook.
 From the 18th to the 16th was written at the first stop returning on the night of she 16th and from the 16th to and including the 18th was written in our last camp re- turning on lne evening of the 18th and written solely under the dfcta- tiOn of Dr Cook and just as he said.
 From and including September l9 down to the end of the diary on Nov ember 9 the entries therein are my own. They cover the actual facts and were not dictated to me By anyone.
 ''Dr Cook first told me to stop my diary on September 12 when we were in our first camp going I'D the glacier and at, or near, the point where Dr. Cook claimed as the top of Mount Mckinley. This point was within sight of Us at the time. Dr. Coo. stated at this time and place that the same conditions existed there as did exist on the top of Mount Mckinley and directed me to stop my diary until further oroers
 This time he had been Co the top of the point claimed by the doctor as the top of the mounain and the doe ter had taken a photograph of the point with me standing on top there of with the American flag in my hand. The photograph to which I refer is shown oposfe page 227 of the doctors book entitled ITO the Top of the Continent" before mentioned.
 The jagged marks on the apex of the snow in that picture and shown from the bottom of the picture up to the granite rock forming the point of the point are my footmarks and those of Dr. Cook. My best recollec tion9 of this are as follows:
 Dr. Cook and I went to the top Of this point together and he said we will get back down and get picture of this" We did not take cur bags with us to the top of the point having left them down in the saddle above the glacier. We then both went down from the point to where our bags had been left. .e doctor took the American flag out Of one of the bags and handed it to me and sent me back to the top of the point and told me ro hold it there on the end of the ice, which did.
 The decor then with his camera took the picture shown oncosbe page 227 which picture is there designated as The Summit of Mount Mckinley Tn his works ITO the Top of the Con- tinent."
 The truth being that the summit CT Mount Mckinley was over 20 miles distant in an air line from the po4nt where my picture was so taken. ac cording to the showing on Dr. Cook S map shown between pages 152 and 155 in the book refelped to above. I then came down with the flag to where Dr. Cook was standing with his camera and I made the remark that the eight peaks on the other side of this point where 1 had been photo eraphed would probably show in the picture and he said that he had taken rHS Rt''NAC do rutu tH dtlSlt IDdl thcse peaks would not show
 The peaks to which refer are slSetched by me in my diary and are marked l to inclusive and are shown in said diary on he rage just pre- ceding the date appearing therein as September and on the pages fol- lowing September 12.
 Those Deans were so sletched and numbered by me when I was in the camps opposite them where could have fine view of them The camps where l so sketched the peaks are the camps markd upon my drawing Exhibit C. heleunto attached as the sixth and eighth camps when we were going up the glacier.
 When We were in the saddle near the point near where I was photo grafhd, l made drawing of what I named Glacier Point At the same time and point made a drawing of Mount Mckinley as I could See the