The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-12-01
COOK SAYS he
MIGHT NOT HAVE
REACHED POLE:
EXPLORER, LONG HirDEN FROM
Pu5LIc, TELLS AMAZING sTo.
ET OF HIS ARCTIC TRIP.
oiscred%d Scientist Declares He
Was Half Insane from Hunger and
Long Exposure When Re houqat
He Reached the Goal.

sHS nSaCUS0 the GO3i-
New York, Nov. 30.-Dr. Fredericl,
A. Cook, the explorer. in an article
which wifi be published in Hampton
magazine, confesses that he does not
know whether or not he reached the
north pole.
Dr. Cook, who has been in hiding
for over a year. has informed the
editors of the magazine publishing
the story, that he will return to the
United States with his wife and cnil.
dren Dec. % to spend Christmas in
this country.
May Have Been Mistaken.
Cook, in his story, says: did |
get to the north pole? Perhaps I
made a mistake in thinking / did.
Perhaps 7 did not make mistake.
After mature thought | confess do
not know absolutely whether
reached the pole or not. This may
come as an amazing statement. but
[ am willing to startie the world, If
by so doing, can get an opportunity
to present my case.
Tells Full Truth.
2 Fully, freely and frankly. shall
tell you everything TIL tell you
everything and leave the decision
with you. sV
: eff, after reading my story, you say
Cook is sincere and honest; half
crazed by months of isolation and
hunger, he believed he reached the
pole; he is not a fakir,' then I shall
be satisfied"
ara Was Half Mad.
Cook declares that the time he
convinced himself that he had dis.
covered the pole he was half mad
He spent two years in his quest and
endured hunger and privation that
he says. would unbalance any mind.
The explorer. states that it would
be impossible for any man to demon
strate beyond question that he mad
been to the north pole. He charac-
terizes the region as "a region of in
sanity" %iIW lTVv
Completely BewiIdered.
Cook says he always looked upon
discovering the pole as an achieve
ment for his personal satisfaction.
When he found how tremendous a
sensation his statement that he had
attained the pole created, he was
overcome with bewilderment. Cook
then tells the story of his days in
Copenhagen, later In New York and
of the crisis that led to his flight
from New York, and voluntary
exile.
Never Disguised.
The explorer says that notwith-
standing the fact that he was follow
ed by the shrewdest newspaper men
in the world day after day, he never
wore disguise and had never
taken unusual precautions to con-
ceal his identity.
DR.. Cook and his wife are now in
Europe and the children are now in
a convent in France Most of the
time during his exile Dr. Cook has
Teen in London. He says he has
gone about among Americans there
and registered under his own name,
and only a few guessed his identity.
Those Xho did guess 1t, Cook says,
were tih'ned away with ease by this
remark: "Why yes, have been told
that before"
Wants to Be Understood.
With the opportunity for thought
his exile has given him, he has found
the desire growing stronger TO re-
turn to his own country, and to be
by his own people. "I
have been called the greatest liar
in the world, and the most monumen.
tai imposter in history" says Cook,
II believe that in every undeslr-
able way stand unquestionably the
object of such suspicion and vitu-
peration as have assailed few men,"
Means Nothing Now.
With this realization Cook wrote
the story and he says to him the
honor of discovering the north pole
no longer means anything. The eX-
plorer has been working on the
story since August, and he says, ac-
cording to the editor of Hamptons
that his sole desire is
to make the people OF the Unitef
States realize just what he went
through during tihhe two and half
years in the arctic fastness, and to
make them see what processes of
or laclt Of thinking, 1t was
that led him t. do the thing which