Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-04
Planted the Stars and Stripes.

"'My feelings We'll, I was too tired really to feel any sensation. l planted the Stars and Stripes in the ice field and my heart grew warm when l saw it wave in the windi'
 How does the north pole look?" was asked.
 ".WeIl.' said pr. Cook, it amounts to the size of a twenty five cent piece. There is nothing to see but ice, ice. ice; no water, only ice. There were more holes here than at the S1th de- gree, winch sh,,ws there, is more move- ment and drift here; but this and oth- CT observations I made afterwards, when I got more settled. I stopped two days at the pole, and I assure you it wasn't easy to say goodbye to the spot.
 "'As l was sitting at the pole I could not help smiling at the people who on my return would call the whole ex- petition humburg. I was sure the people would say that I had bought my two witnesses and that my note book with my daily observations had been manufactured on board ship.
 The only thing l can put up against this is what the New York Eskimos have told Knud Rasmussen. Let the skeptics who disbelieve my
 
 will find a small brass tube which I buried under the flag. That tube con- tains sport statement about my trip. I couldn't leave my visiting card be- cause l didn't happen to have one with me.
 The Turn Southward.
 'Perhaps,' the explorer added dry ly. I should have stayed there longer had it not begun to freeze. In our s.41a -,t-s and teh dogs howled fearfully. On April 23, the- 4fore, l again turned my nose southward, which was much easier, as you cannot turn your nose in any other direction when you stand at the pole.
 Describing the return journe-- pr. Cook said:
 Fortune now smiled We did twenty miles per day until we reached the ominous S7th degree. Then I felt the ice moving eastward, carrying us withit. A terrible fog swept round us and kept us for three weeks unable to make an observation. During those three weeks we got no further than the S4th degree. Then began a heavy walk towards Heibergsland and an- other three weeks of fog. When that cleared l saw we had drifted south west to Rinfnesland, where we found open water and tower1high screw ice, which stopped our way eastward.
 We now began to suffer hunger. Our provisions were becoming ex- hausted and we were unable to find depots. We entered Ringnesland and on June 20 found the first animals on our return-bear and seal. We shot a bear.
 Only Fifteen Bullets Left.
 "'And now our goal was the whalers at Lancaster sound. We followed the drift ice to the south eight miles a day, but was stopped by pack ice in Wellington channel, which was inn passble either by boat or sled. Here was lots of game, but we did not dare shoot it. We had only taken a hun dred bullets to the pole and now only fifteen were left. We went into Jones sound after walrus and bears and found open, calm water. We met polar wolves with which some of our dogs made friends and ran away.
 Now we spent day and night in an open boat ten miles from shore. This lasted for two months, while storms We got ashore again, but we had no fuel and were obliged to eat uncooked food. Next day we found fuel and what what feast we had. We suffer ed much hunger during this period. One night a bear came and stole our food. We had many fights with musk oxen which attacked us. Our best weapon against them was the lasso'"
 The correspondents story quotes Dr. Cook as saying in conclusions:
 ''l Thank God l Am Back"
 Say that the day we reached our provision stores at Etah was a greater day than April 21. I long to get back to civilization, to move among my fel- low men; long to press my wife to my heart. I am the happiest man liv- ing. Tell the whole world I thank God I am back"