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DR.. COOKS SUCCESS
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Cook S adventure, none interested in
Arctic research were much surprised
Explorer Robert G. Peary, who was
then preparing for his expedition of the
Roosevelt, on which he now is was
very angry, declaring the whole thing
premeditated and fput-up job to
steal march upon him and to embar-
rass him.
Dr. Cook had planned to approach
the Pole from his winter quarters in
Greenland, travel across Ellsmere Land.
over Nansen Strait and out to the Polar
back, and so straight north to the Pole.
Peary said this route was Gas fantastic
as it would be to go directly to Cen
trail Park from the Battery by way of
Jersey City, Others disagreed with
Peary. At any rate, DIR. Cook reached
safely the point he had aimed for, and
it does not seem to have been far from
the accredited route.
All the animadversions against DR..
Cook Mr.. Bradley combated when he
reached New York He said DR.. Cook IS
decision had been made on the spur of
the moment, and that he, Bradley, had
thought the plan so good that he had
financed the expedition. The amphib-
ious auto, he declared, was really a
twenty-seven foot whaleboat, which he
had built especially. and ysas really a
high-power motor boat, holding a ten
horsepower engine. 1t was sheathed
with steel and weighed less than a
thousand pounds. It was so made that
it could travel over the ice with run
ners.
When DIR. Cook started, he left be-
hind at Annatok the only remaining
white man in his party, Rudolph
FTancke, a young German Francke
had been told by the explorer to wait
at winter quarters until he heard from
him, and when he did hear to obey in
structions literally. On May 7, 1908,
Francke received message from DR..
Cook telling him to go back to New
York if he did not return to Annatok
by early June. This was the March
II letter, and must have been written
two weeks after the start Poleward.
June came and went and DIR. Cook did
not return Francke, therefore, obey
ed, and started south. He made long
detour to North Star Bay in Greenland,
in the hope of meeting the whalers. On
the way he became afflicted with seurvy
and rheumatism and had to crawl over
the ice. The whalers had gone from
North Star, and Francke, with a few
Eskimo, started back to Etah. His
story Of what he experienced gives some
slight idea Of what DR.. Cook may be
undergoing.
stWhen DR.. Cook did not return he
says, - started south with two Eski-
mo youths, sledge and canvas boat.
| thought l might connect with the
whalers at North Star Bay in Green
land, six hundred miles away.
s3On the way | met some Eskimo, to
whom | turned over the dog team, as
the ice was broken and loose and we
had to travel mostly by open water
The weather was against us. 1t was
terrible. The matches became damp
and useless, and we had to live on raw
meat and sleep huddled up under the
overturned boat. We never had.
fire.
At Etah, Francke, in terrible eondi-
ton, was picked up by Peary's auxil-
lary cruiser, the Erik. He had impro-
vised clutches out of two sticks and
had been living ON walrus meat, which
the natives gave to him and to their
dogs alike. He was taken to Nova
Scotia, and from there found his way
back to New York.