Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-29

and was gone two years. This ex. petition was commanded by Ad. riene de Gerlache. and was the first of the modern series Of Antarctic ex- plorations. Our ship on this Belgian expedition was the first to winter in the Antarctic waters.
 The ascent of Mount Mckinley. concerning which there has been so much written, was attempted first in 1909. and actually made in 1906 when l tried for the second time The first attempt was d failure be- cause of the unscalable cliffs We en. countereu on the side on which we had begun to climb. The second we Started from the north. and the story Of our success is told fin my book ITO the Top of the Continent" :"
 Tt was in 19O7 that I began the dash for the pole and my experiene- es on that expedition. and the reas- ons I have for believing that found the pole before Peary. or any other man. will he told in my lecture. don't know how much the people Of the west have been interested in this controversy, but I consider it of vast importance to present the truth before them, and give them an opportunity to get at the facts of the case.
 T will only tell the way in which came 10 undertake the last ex- pedition. During a stay or several months I had made in the east I was introduced to western man named John R. Bradley, whose one aim in fife was to hunt big game He had covered the entire western part of the United States and want cd to go to the Arctic regions. 1 haG an ambition 10 discover the pole and together we worked out the plans for the Arctic expedition. We left the New England shores early in 1907 in a remodeled Gloucester fish ing schooner and went north to the west coast of Greenland, where Bradley found his big game in abun- dance-walrus, caribou, bear and seal, and then pushed still further north to the limits of navigation. In Etah. the northwestern harbor of Greenland. Bradley's ambition end cd and mine begun, for he had sat ed himself or the game of the re- zion and was beginning to feel hope that ! might have the honor of reaching the pole. We found here that the Des hunters of the tribes had gathered there for the winter bear hunt. and their chase had been supply of such provisions as I need ed for my expedition. Selecting a point about twenty miles north Of Etah as starting point, landed my equipment and prepared for the fin al dash, the pole being about roo miles north of our base of supplies.
 Respects to Pesry.
 Dr. Cook gave out nothing fur ther concerning his last trip to the Arctic regions. stating that the story would be tcld in his lecture.
 q have consistently maintainad an attitude of patience toward the oth- CT side, I have done no mud throw ing, and have not attempted to make an empty back fire of useless islander. Put simply because l haven't fought my enemies. and es- pecially the press, they have taken adyaneage of my situation. And in order 10 properly present my case and compel fair play I am un- covering the other side. In the lee lures I em delivering I give a sim pie description of the last trip to the pole and present the data which proves all my statements. But this is not all. I want 10 have fair play. intend 10 show that Peary has used means to discredit me and has been the prime instigator of the blackest campaign of sIander and l dishonesty that the world has ever known