Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-26
|COOK ACCUSES
KNUD RASMUSSEN n
Traverses Danish Explorers
Statements, Making Him
Out a Liar.
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SIDING UP TO CAPT. P {: i
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Says lie WIZ Take Pcary's Word in
Preference to That OF
The Dane.

New York. Dec. 25.--By implication.
accusing Kund Rasmussen. the Dan
ish explorer, of "stoopingito the depths
of a literary muct-rakcr to get public
attention." Dr.. Frederick A. Cook, the
tonight to Rasmussen's recent attack
ON Cook, which was published on Nov.
., last.
! Incidental to his defense OF his own
narrative Of arctic exploration. DR..
| Cook says that by Rasmussens meth
DDS of investigation. Robert e. Peary
! could, with equal ease, be discredlted,
| but declares that no will take Mn.
Peary's word in preference to either
that OF Rasmussen or the Eskimos in
the matter of his own accomplish
ments.'
Rasmussen's attack on Cook was sent
by him to his wife in Copenhagen and
by her made public. 1t contained what
purported to be statements from
Cooks two Eskimo companions In his
north pole quest, ItulSusukuk and Api-
lax Rasmussen said he did not per-
|
their statements were taken by two
missionaries who We're working in the
country from which DR.. Cook said he
started for the pole.
EsKIMos, STORIES.
The stories were, in brief:
The Ekimos left Annatok with Cook
with eight sledses in February, slept
once on the ice on the way to Ellsmer
nt,1 f,,ot fr,t f.Na I,nf md
Eighteen days out all but the two
Eskimo boys left The nineteenth day
they changed their course westward.
Later Apilali came upon Cook draw
ing n map. He asked him whose route
lie was drawing.
My own, said the explorer
But, that" the statement makes the
boy say. was a lie, because he drew
the map a long way out at sea, where
he had never BEEN.
{. The Eskimo's statement continued
that the party eventually reached Cape
Seldom and wintered there; that Cook
spent most OF the time writing and
at first sight of tho sun they started
home;that the explorer promised them
a good reward but we did not get
the guns he promised us. He gave
us only II knife, some matches and q
useless boat
gsl7ls. j. lkASNllD CoNlANllisA<l
Commenting on this report, Rasmus-
sen said:
81 regard the report as absolutely
authentic"
In his statement given out tonight
Cook answers categoiically the state
ments imputed to the Eskimo boys.
denying each in turn and giving rca-
sons why he thinks they should be
considered false: declares that Ras-
mussen has reason to dislike him: says
no effort was made to get at the truth
In the alleged examination of the two
boys, but that. on the contrary. they
were piled with leading questions de-
signed to evolve the answers desired.
and points out what he terms the well
known tendency OF oil Indians to give
answers which they believe will please
their questioners.
Cook says Rasmussen's reputation
as an arctic sledse traveller rests upon
a journey from Tassuasak to Cape
York.
cribs trip he says, ''wns but a
stop in my return voyage, occupying
only three and one-half days. and 1t Is
covered by one sentence In my nara
tive"
Rasmusscn's reason to be hostile to
him, Cook finds in snub which ne
was compelled to administer to the
Dane III lfUt, WlleH llle stiSiit A'iou'Ss
arrived in North Star bay. Rasmussen
came aboard, he says, dressed In old,
greasy furs and eSuding strong
stencil of oil. He and the Dane be-
came "chumny'' at once, ana ne salu
to Mr. Bradley:
1--WE must invite Rasmussen to din
ncr." -
Bradley, he says, replied NO, for
Gods sake no; ! will get scasick from
that odor."
The result was, Cook says that he
asked tho captain to Take the Dane to
his mess and Rasmussen had good rca-
son to take this treatment as snub.
.In 1909" says the statement, "Ras.
mussen saw relatives and friends OF
the Eskimo boys who had been with
me, and from them gathered inforna-
ton which convinced him that had
been to the pole. He has no other In
formation now. but for reasons best
known to himself he comes to an op-Sl
positc opinion.
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