New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-25
BOrneO Warriors, Tanned
Into Gracious Hosts,
Gossip Over Skull Cups.
SAUERKRAUT PUT SPY
faint ON EXPLORER
After Open Boat Trip and
Cheers in Denmark He Re-
turns to Beard Peary.

old Doc Cook sprang new one yes
terday. The explorer who made tho
North Pole famous returned on the
kristanafjord from an inspection Of
Borneo. He shattered the islands repu-
tation by declaring that the wild men
there are not really wild at all
/ DR.. Cooks original purpose, however,
in making the seven months trip he
has just completed was not 70 destroy
Young Americas conception Of the origI-
nal wild man as inculcatcd by =. !. Bar
mum. step right up. ladies and gents.
Watch him eat the raw meat, Hear
him roar') with DR. +. =. Thompson,
naturalist, and f.. $. Brooke, photog-
rapher. he set out to climb Mount
Everett. in the Himalays.
The Borneo trip was planned only
after British authorities at Calcutta
refused to ntrust the worlds highest
peak 70 DR.. Cooks mercies.
on the way to India the Cook tour
had paused for a meal with the Doctors
old friend Roedick. agent for the Pa
cifc Mail at Honolulu. II was fatal
error. Teutonically tainted by that
friendly consumption Of sauerkraut.
Allied interests were forever suspecting
them of being German spies. 1t was
not until they finally reached the
Of 10 ri a
they were really free from suspicion.
Blocked again by the authorities
when he tried to get passage on a
Dutch shin from Singapore 20 Borneo.
Or. Cook and his companions had 10
make the trip IN a twenty -elght-foot
boat by way Of the Philippines. Alto
/ gcther the explorers travelled about
two thousand miles IN their small craft.
The wild man." before he moves 10
an American side show. they found. IS
moderately rational person. HIS only
unconventional diversions are mead
hunting and polygamy. In fact, more
delightful chap never slpped ms tea
from "A followed skull
"The hcad-hunter is really charm
inf. fellow" said the doctor. Ills en-
tire life Is proof Of his mental DO.
vclopmcnt lie only took the heads Of
his enemies. Diplomacy required that
We should keep on friendly terms WIN
him. We spent some time on the ISL
and. studying and talking with MN
through a German who spoke me pa
tots of these aborigines. The head
hunter is almost white and OF magnll-
cent physique. The entire village lives
in one house or warren, II you WISH.
And the chief keeps as many wives as
. he can support
Or. Cook has never rclnGuished his
claims 20 Arctic glory IL Is his con
trovcrsy with Admiral Robert r. Peary.
I'm fact that brings him back. lie -
going to Washington because five ollls
arc pcnding before Congress calling TOR
an investigation Of the question and "a
final settlement
II have been trying all these years
90 secure fair hearing. SAID Dr'
Cook. land will welcome chance TO
face any unpreiudiced tribunal. The
proofs are our data, and am ready to
submit mine.
ANY reports that ! was not we'll re-
ceived in Denmark are absolutely I'M
true. had very kind reception when
/ stopped at Copenhagen and there has
never been anv thought Of their with
drawing the degrees and medals they
gave me. The Danes have been unable
20 find Peary's channel and Crocker's
land. The reason BE- that they do NOT
exist