Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-07

away but to me that is a marJer OF
indifference. l should have been very
glad to have found land there.
READY ~ SHOW OBSERVATIONS.
"I am quite prepared to place my Oh
servations before any geographical soci-
ETY. in the world. 1. think there is nc
doubt about my obtaining authoritative
recognition. / have already received tele-
grams from the geographical societies OF
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium and
other countries which congratulate me
while Amundsen, Nordenskjold, Cagni
and Lecointe have acknowledged my
work. / offer my observations TO science
the same as other men have done and
accept the responsibility.
LAS to the temperature at thepole II
was minus So. l took about 400 photo
graphs, one Of which shows the American
flag flying. These as yet have not been
developed"
Questioned egarding his great speed,
DR.. Cook said:
1.-The daily distance. covered on the
northward trip was slightly less than ID
miles; on the southwark trip 1t was 10
miles. This is not an abnormal dis
lance for Esquimaux on the ice. They
often travel so or 60 miles with dogs.
One Of the great advantages of our
trip was that 1 did not take famine
route. We had game for long time,
perhaps for a hundred miles. We fed
our dogs we'll throughout the winter i'm
Greenland and ran them 400 miles, giving
them fresh meat every day. Thus we
brought them to the polar sea fat and
well. We had the best men and the
best dogs.
I'VE lived entirely on dried meat and
beef tallow, reducing the food problem
to a science. The last trace of animals
we saw was a bear track at SO degrees.
Afterwards we did not even see life in
the water except Algae. The drift of
the ice during the entire southern trip
was slightly south of eastS the direction
of the wind was generally south of
west. We found several of sverdrup's old
camps.
TOO WEAK TO BUILD SHEDS.
1.-THE reason we utilized silk tents on
some occasion was that we were so
exhausted we hadn't strength to build
a snow shed. We had carefully figured
and planned everything so that there
was no surplus weight to carry. We did
not run short except when we went
astray.
During the expedition we ate all
kinds of meat. 1 like musk OK best, but
We would eat pear or IOX II the OIner
was not obtainable. Everything tastes
good when one is starving. We brought
ten dogs back with us, the others nav
ing been eaten by their companions. We
used the lasso, traps and bows and ar
rows to catch game. 1t took two months
to learn how to trap a moose. One of
the men shot an elder duck with ar
rows"
DR.. Cook concluded his observations
with a reference to the kind way he
had been treated by the king, who was
greatly interested in his adventures He
stated that he is going to New York
as soon as possible. He will remain
here for a few days and then will pro-
coed to Brussels. where he is a mem
Der of the Polar club. He assured his
hearers that he did not want to go 10
the pole again. either north or south.
The famous explorer. Sverdrup. ar
rived here tonight from Christiana to
greet DR.. Cook. He said to a CORE
'spondent:
II have no doubt whatever that DR..
Cook reached the pole. He could not
have had a better expedition than Es-
qlimau and Esquirnau dogs"