The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-15

sketched the peaks are the camps marked upon my drawing Exhibit c" hereunto attached, as the sixth anu eight tn camps when we were going up the glacier.
 Glacier Point.
 When we were in the saddle near the point where I was photographed I made a drawing of what I named Glacier Point At the same time and point I made drawing of Mount Me Kinley as l could see the top of Mount Mckinley off to the northeast and, should say at least 20 miles away. This drawing of Glacier Point and Mount Mckinley shown in my diary, on the fourth and fifth pages of the sketches therein, represents conditions as they appeared to me upon the ground. Dr. Cook stood by my side when I was making these sketches, using his in- struments for the purpose of taking temperature, elevations and the like. We remained on the saddle after I was photographed on the point for about one-half hour. during wh ich I sketched as above stated, and the doctor used his instruments
 When I came down from the point and handed the doctor the flag, in ad- dition to what I stated above, he made seevral other remarks and there was
  , not now recall; but whether at that place or thereafter between the Izth and 18th of the month, when my diary was doctored to fit the conditions that this point was the top, he stated to me as follows:
 "'That point would make good top for Mount Mckinley It looks just about like the gun sight peak would look on Mount Mckinley which we had hann A1nn rft,er af I<l1
 Tn about half an hour after the pie lures were taken we fixed up our packs and at about 10:30 or Il o'clock on Sep tember 13 we started down and arrived on the place designated in Exhibit O. as sixth camp, the doctor saying he wanted to go around there in order to get farther up on the main glacier, so as to get a good view of the northeast ridge leading up to the summit of Mount Mckinley so as to ascertain if that ridge was con- nected solid with the top of the noun tain. so that it would have an appear ance similar to the description that he was to give in his writings; as the doctor had seen the mountain from all sides, ex- cepting this side, and as this was the side where he proposed to claim that he had climbed it, he wished to know the nature of the ridge leading up to the top of the mountain so he could write about
 
 in the balance of the 18th and all of the 14th and 18th days of September, and at the eighth camp, on September 15, Dr. Cook made his observations of the ridge. We then turned back from this camp for the reason that we had both fallen through crevasses, as stated in the diary, and we considered it too dangerous to proceed further without snowshoes, as the doctor had obtained good view of the ridge, which was what he wanted With Cook Continuously. T was with Dr. Cook continuously every day during the time which he was trying to ascend the mountain in the year 1906, and the nearest point to the summit of Mount Mckinley which we reached was at least IA miles distant from the summit of that mountain, and at no time did we reach an elevation in excess of 10000 were at the place where my picture was taken that we were not over 5000 feet shigh. neglected to state that on the 16th of September and on the evening of September g. pr. Cook asked me if I was willing to stay with him. I said. Yes when he said, will see you get $2OO extra for doing so.'
 The photograph opposite page I'll in Dr. Cooks book above mentioned, and described therein as the eastern cliffs of Mount Mckinley are not such cliffs, but are a part of the eastern slope of the eighth peak above mentioned, and drawn by me in my diary attached hereto. "The photograph opposite page 192 in Dr. Cooks book was taken the evening