The Cairo bulletin., 1910-11-10
FIRST REFoRT or RASsMU55EM,
EXPLORER, CONFIRMS TEA.
RVS CHARGES
TRAVELLED N CIRCLE
Not Near North Po,c--Essim Tcs-
tify to Th s--Rassmusscn Says
He Believes Story Of the
Eskinsos.

Chicago, hov, 9.-Dr Frederick A.
Cook was further iiscredned In
spec al Dispatch to the Chicago Daiiy
News today from its corresponds
IN Copenhagen, Denmark. The story
was Tie first publication az the I'd.
port Of knud Rassmnsseas the Fan
Ish explorer, as sent ly aim to mis-
wife i Copenhagen ard now given
out by her
Contained In the story lis what prr-
ports 70 be tne statements III Cooks
TWO Eskimo companions In the rolar
quest, Itukusuk and Apilak. II which
they affirm Commander Robert r..
Peary's cnatge tnat Cook Travelled in
circle and never even approached
VIC role Raussmussen, In tho story,
Is quoted as saying he himself did
not Interview the msa, but that their
statements were taken by the Rev
Gustav Olsen aud Kateaet Ssshmann
Rosebacn, missionaries, born In
Greenland e~d Il, the time az seer
ing the statements wcrflng Ia tie
country facm VII ch coln claimed to
have started for the pale.
The dispatch to the Daily News
says;
ALREADY II t9c9 wfcr was On an
! 'eSpo Mion to Greenland, writes Iaass
Imnssen, "trere eTlstcd grave dorbis
as TO whether Dr. Ccok really hall
Preached the pole, SO | determined to
find onpt from his Jwo Eskimo com.
panions, secured thaas statspleQts
HhlDugh the missionaries
| This Is the story-of the Eskimos as
ig ven in the dispatch.
Travelled With DR.. Cook.
we Travelled from Annatok with
eight sledges, in company with DR..
Cook, at the first sunshine (Febru-
iarD. From there to Ellesmere we
slept only once on the Ice. It took
, four days to cross EllesmoreIand
Eighteen days out our companions
left MS. We had gone only about
twelve English miles from land.
The ice was fine and there was no
reason to stop, for any one who
wanted to go on could DO so. The
nineteenth day DR.. Cook took obser-
yations with an instrument he hell
in his nand, and We then cnarfed
our course westward.
1--WE left here Ioi Of food for men
and dogs and one of rs Qtukusukl
went ahead to examine the Ice We
reported I In good shape, which IL
was, but Dr. Cook looked at II and
said It was bal,
"On the way back we stopped at
| open water near the land. We
stopped one day and went over to
Ringnas Island before the snow had
melted (ApriB. We had not had the
least fog on the ice AZ this time the
sun was just below the horizon at
night 1t was the month when N does
not get dark (Marciil Later, when
near AXelneiberg Land, we passed
two days In fog
zone day !. Apllak. came upon DR..
Cook sitting down AMI drawing
nan. looked at II and asked him:
Whose route are you drawingr
Ny own" replied Dr. Cook
Rasmussen adds.
"a regard the report as absolutely
authentic, According 10 what Is
known Dr. Cook said nothing of tne
pole while with his two companions,
and when ne left them ana began to
tell Of finding The pole his two new
companions believed as they could
not conceive man prevaricatiug
about so great thing. The map
drawn by Itukusuk s remarkably
well dcne",
Sent Wife Similar Report.
Rasmussen has also sent his wife
a similar report on Peary's trip, says
the i spatch TO the Chicago paper,
to give the tales of Iggan-
gurak and ltkuark, Peary's compan-
ions. This part of the dispatch says
Peary prepared for the march by
sending ahead men and slcdges some
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