Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13
rpy Associated Press.l

NOPENHAGEN, Sept. ia remark
able letter, giving DR.. Frederick
~ A. Cooks version of the trouble
with Commander Peary over suplies'
appears in the Politiken.
The letter was written by DR.. Car
men Hansen, a prominent Danish ply
sician, who several times visited Green
land to study eye diseases.
DR.. Cook told practically the same
story to one of his closest American
friends just a week ago, before Com
mander Peary appeared on the scene,
| but said he did not intend to make 1t
public because it might lead TO un-
pleasantness.
DR.. Hansen was with DR.. COOK Tor
some time in Greenland and returned
with him on the Danish steamer Hans
'Now that Dr. Cook has gone" he
writes. 'I am no longer under any OBJ
legation to keep silent and Will exercise
my right to publish my story about the
house in Annatook-a story which DR..
Cook himself had too much dellcacy
to relate to the world.
"I write it from memory, as Or.
Cook told it to me, and am fully con-
WINGED that in no details are my recoi-
lections wrong.
History of Case
"Dr. Cook had built his house for
stores in Annatook, north of Etah, and
il was this depot which he started TO
reach in Februady, 1903, along smith
sound.
1T was a pretty large house, the
walls being built of heavily hiied pro-
vision boxes, so that DR.. Cook knew
when this important point was reacileu
everything was safe
"He had before the start given per-
mission to a young friend named WnIt-
nev to use the house while hunting
musk oxen for sport in the winter Oh
190S-9. NJ,
mos. exhausted and half starved, came
within n short distance of the house in
Annatook, young Whitney came out TO
bid him welcome, but inside the mousse
was a stranger, a giant Newfoundland
boatswain, on watch
"This man had been placed IN l1r.
Cooks house by Peary when the latter
osssed Ftab with his ship bound north.
Pearv had given the boatswain writ
fen order, which commenced with the
Following words:
Peary Took Possession
"rhis house belongs to DR.. Freder-
icls A cook. but Dr. Cook is long ago
dead and there is no use to search
after him. Therefore 1, Commanaer
Robert E. Peary, install my poats"aliA
in this deserted house.
This paper the boatsWain, who could
neither write nor read, exhibited 10 d.
Cook and the latter took a copy
.TThis COPY, however, he does not
intend to publish if Peary's course
does not force him to do so. DR.. Cook
gave me a lively account of how
Young Whitney, during the whole win
Ter, was treated like a dog by the
boatswain and how he had witnessed
the sailor bartering DR.. Cooks pro-
visions for fox and bear skins for HIM
self.
"Dr. Cook also had to put good face
on the unpleasant situation. He had
to beg to get in his house and had TO
make a compromise with the boat
swain.
''Dr. Cook made a present of the
house with all its contents to his two
faithful Eskimos, with the provision
that whitney was to have the use OF
the house as long as his hunting trip
lasted, but he was compelled to let the
boatswain continue his watch.
Boatswain's Orders
1.-THE boatswain, hcgever. received
strict orders not to exehange any more
of the provisions or guns.
ITO Mr.. Whitney DIR. Cook gave MS
instructions and his observations, as
he thought these precious things We're
safer there than on the long sledge
trip In the spring across Melville bay,
but ali his note books and soiled rec
ords which have been so closely writ
ten upon he kept and carried with him.
IT only understand little astron-
omy. and the records were written
down so closely and in all directions
and were very hard to read, but what
is the record to us?
"The two men, Peary and Cook
their character, their conduct-that IL
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