The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-12-08
DIR. COOK DIsCovEHED.
Amazing and Stratling Announce
ment Made by Arctic Ex-
plorer.

New York, Nov. 30.--Did I get
TO the North Pole? Perhaps
made a mistake i'm thinking that |
did. Perhaps | did not make a mis-
take. After mature thought | con-
Tess that | do not know absolute
ly whether l reached the Pole or
not This may come as an amazing
statement, but ! am willing to star
tie the world, if by so doing, | can
get another opportunity to present
my case. By my case ! mean not
ny case as geographical discover
er, but my case as a man. Much as
the attainment once meant TO me,
the sympathy and confidence of my
fellow men means more"
In this way DR.. Friedrich A. Cook,
the Brooklyn explorer, in an article,
which will be published in Hamp-
tons Magazine, confesses that he
does not know whether he reached
the North Pole or not. The pub
fishers Of the article issued a state
ment tonight saying that nowhere
In his narrative does DR.. Cook
either cast any reflection on Peary
or question Peary's claims. Dr.
Cook, who has been in hiding for
over a year, has informed the edi-
tors OF the magazine publishing that
he will return to the United States
with his wife and children Decem-
her %, in order to spend Christmas
here.
Continuing, DR.. Cook says:
Fully, freely and frankly l shall
tell you everything Tell you every
thfng-and leave the decision with
you II, after reading my story,
YOU say Cook is sincere and hon
est; half crazed by months of is
olation and hunger, he believed he
reached the Pole; he is no fakir;'
then l shall be satisfied
DR.. Cook tells the story of his
Efe and pictures what he calls the
overpowering ambition for explora-
ton until it finally eliminated in
his effort to reach the Pole. DR..
Cook declares that, at the time he
convinced himself that he discovered
the Pole he was half mad He
spent two years in his quest and
during that time endured hunger
and privation that, he says, would
unbalance my mind.
DR.. Cook says that it would be
impossible for any man to demon
strate beyond question that he had
neen to the North Pole. He char
acteriZes hte region as region of
insanity, where one cannot believe
ih" evidences gathered before ones
eyes
Il have been called the greatest
liar in the world the most monument.
al imposter in history" says DR..
Cook. Il believe that i'm every un-
desirable way | stand unique, the
object of such suspicion and vitu-
rcration as have assailed few men. -
With this realization, DR.. Cook
wrote the story and says that to
him the honor of discovering the
North Pole no longer means any
thing. The explorer has been work
ing on his story since last August,
and says, according to the editor
Of Hampton Magazine. that his
sole desire is to make the people of
the United States just what he
went through during his two and a
half years in the Arctic fastness,
and to make them see what pro-
ceSses of thinking-or lack of
tnlnking-it was that led him to do
the thing, which confirmed to tie
average mind the worst suspicious
against him.
DR.. Cook then tells The story of
the days in Copenhagen and later in
New York, and OF the crisis in his
.ife that led TO his flight from New
York and his voluntary exile from
tho United States
DR.. Cook and his wife are now in
Euroep and the children are now in
Il convent in France. Most OF the
time during his exile DR.. Cook has
been in London.