Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-09-03 | Page 1 | Explorer Believes Cook's Story

I I EXPLORER BELIEVES COOKS STORY Th ThY Y L 4 p I it I t j 1 rT AW I 4 h I k F j c h Shackleton his wife and children The lieutenant recently re returned returned turned from a famous Antarctic expedition upon which he was as accompanied accompanied accompanied for fora a part of the way by his family f t E J SAYS THE TALE Eio IS TRUE lie t Jn Dr Scolds ff r rM i M t s Po Pos u c London Sept 2 After reading ft brief summary ef of Dr Vt Frederick A Cook dashto to the North Pole Lieutenant eat t H Shackelford Shackelford ford who ho recently kJ klan an expedition to the Antarctic region rewn id ld that no one had a right to be skeptical q There was wu nothing DOt in the explorers statement but what was possible po Consequently the lieutenant con continued to n I tinned I do not think th he time it took I him to return is a 3 his statement The question is tance was he actually from the hen he started with the Eskimos fie U must have done twelve miles a day to cover the Dis Distance Js tance given g en in days No other expedition has hu been able to do anything near tins In the north one or oi two miles a day is considered good progress but Cook must have he traveled travel d over absolutely smooth ice I which is an unique condition