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 London. Sept. 2.-Dr. Cooks nar- rative of his thrilling journey to the North Pole, while 1t has not removed the doubts raised as to his having really accomplished the feat he ciaims has at least set at cost the fmproha~ ble suggestions advanced ia some quarters yesterday that he had att tained, not the North Pole. but the magnetic pole.
 Captain Roald Amundssn. in an in- tervisw at Christiana on this point says:
 "such a supposition is nonsense. The magnetic pole Is situated on the American side and it is quite tmpos- sible that Dr. Cook could have been driven so far from his planned route I feel certain that pr. Cook has ox- pressed nothing definitely about the result. know him to be abscinteiy discreet and taciturn. Other people have misunderstood him and 1t will be necessary to await his arrival at CopenhaRen for the real facts"
 The London newspapers are not wholly convinced by the narrative and persist that 1t will be necessary to await more details and reports. Tney are unable to conceive how c task which has beaten the abiest polar ex- plorers provided with everything that money could purchase would have been achieved in such seemingly on-hand and unpremeditated manner and with such ease and quickness At the same time they pay tributes of admiration to pr. Cook.
 pr. Hugh R. Hill. former librarian of the Royal Geographical Society. iH rather skeptical. but says that great weight must be attached to the opin- aTnw ANtm NVx A
 Sir Martin Conway, a noted exp1or- CT, thinks pr. Cooks claim could hg accepted if his story on examination was found to hang together. Sir George s. Naros, who commanded the Challenger in 1873 and was with an arctic expedition n 1875 says:
 Prof. Milne, the noted seismoiogist, thinks that If pr. Cook has . few properly taken photographs of the sj<y at the pole on April 2l. 1908. they may assist in determining the position he reached.
 After reading. brief sum mary of pr. Frederick A. Cooks account of his dash to the North Pole. Lieutenant Ernest H. Shackieton. who recently led an expedition to the South Pole regions, said today that nos body had any right to be skepticai. There was nothing in the expiorer'a statement but what was perfectly pos- sible after he got within BOO miles Of the pole, and after reaching the pole and after getting back to solid land there was nothing to prevent pr. Cook living with the Esquimaux uuttI taa@ year.
 ''Conseauently," the lieutenant con- timed, T don't think the time 1t took him to return is against hts statement. The question is what distance was be actually from the pole when he start ed with his EsquimAux. He must have done twelve mles a day to cover the distance given in thirty-five days No other expedition has been able to do anything near this. In the north one or two miles a day iB considered good progress, but Cook must have travelled over absolutely smooth ice. which ia q condition that iY unique"
 John R. Bradley. the financial nack CT of pr. Frederick Cook, took pains t0 explain today that the Brooklyn ex- plorer's success in reaching the North Pole was not so much the result or chance as the opinions of several ex- perts would Indicate.
 No Arctic JOy Ride.
 This was no haphazard expedition.- he said. mo intensified Arctlc Joy tlues undertaken on nerve. We went about our preparations for this thing Quietlys and without brass band accompani- ments, but every imaginable contin- Rency had been provided for.
 we studied out the mistakes aud misfortunes of other men who had tried for the pole hoping to benent by their errors and we certainly benented by their examples.
 "I am not going to telb what the cose was but I'll tell you this much: One single Item of the equipment was b.0Vv. gallons of gasoline. and another wa two barrels of gum crops. An Esaui N maux will travel thirty miles for q gum drop. His sweet tooth Ia thsf sweetest in the world.
 Now, Cook has as much nerve any man in the world. guess: but