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Show A SIDE-LIGHT ON DR. COOK A The following, translated from the Danish paper. Dannevirkc, gives an interesting view of Dr. Cook by Rev. Ludwig of Copenhagen, ouo of his fellow fel-low passengers on board tho Huns TCgede. IJcv. Ludwig had taken a long journey through northern Greenland in the cause of missions, and was on his way back when Dr. Cook was taken on board. Says Rev. Ludwig: "On tho! Gth of August T was waiting on the steamship llans Egode for my friend. Pastor Osterman of Jacobshagcn, Greenland, Green-land, to meet me, and I was rejoicing at the prospect of a visit with him and thinking of all the news I had found on the vessel for both of us after several months' absence from Denmark. I stood on the deck and watched a boat conic out. In it sat Pastor Osterman, and at his side a man I. did not know, but whom 1 supposed to bo ono of the German geologists who were on an ox-noditiou ox-noditiou in the north. lie was closely-built closely-built and dressed in Greenland fashion. I littlo dreamed that T was about to meet the world's sensation. A moment later Pastor Osterman presented him as 'Dr. Cook? finder of the north polo.' At first T thought it a joko, and then 1 remembered that he had been with Pear' aud Astmp on some of their expeditions ex-peditions and that he had himself uu-dertaken uu-dertaken an expedition a year ago of which no word had been received, and in which it was feared he had perished. "I spent a, week in the ship nDr-Cook's nDr-Cook's company, after which we visited iu Jacobshagcn and then journeyed with Inspector D. .Tenseu iu motor boat down to tho. Hans Egcde, thence to Denmark. Den-mark. I was thus a month in daily intercourse with him, and havo bcmi asked to give 1113' impressions as to his personality. We found ma 113 interests in common upon which to converse; first, about the mission station at Cape York, which is now well started and in which Dr. Cook was greatly interested, especial I3' in regard to the education of tho young Greenlanders. lie has not spent his time among the Greenlanders and Eskimos for naught. "Then he told 1110 about church conditions con-ditions in America, and we discussed poofr3" and music, llo is a great lover of song. T think I camo to know him prett' well, and my impression is simply sim-ply this: A fine, "serious, noble character, char-acter, whose modest und jfrioudly atti-tudo atti-tudo won him as many friends as there were passengers on " the steamer or guests wherever we came. "ff, then, you ask me whether he really reached' the north polo, 1 would say, ''Yes. of course. ' Dr. Cook started out., urged on by what he was pleased $ p to call the 'Arctic fever.' aud ho made J pFJ the trip iu the only possible wnv, jour- S SU neyed as an Eskiijto. For me the onlv r- testimonv necessary was that of th'e f 1.1"" writer, Knud Rasmussen, who knew of i what he was talking when he congratu- 5 lated Dr. Cook in warm and henrtfclt a $ words of praise. '! "IC. Rasmussen, I say, knows of what J$ he is talking, for when ho travels he goes in the same way as Dr. Cook, and f f1 when it is said that sixteen or eighteen fdiy miles a day is impossible, it soundu ri- , S Ei'j diculous to those who know that Urn ;J bje; Eskimos can easilv cover fortv to sixty r frfa miles per day when tho ice is "favorable $ f;M2 Other expeditions 'start out with too i l' much baggage and several white men, ' r.jF who retard progress. But hero is a mail gj, who goes forth with two young Eskf- j. r;im mos, and without hcavv baggage. That f $so"t is the way to get ahead. ' $ f' I "Dr. Cook needs no proofothor than his noble, earnost personality, when ono 1; comes in contact with him. It was a- ' p moment marking histoiy when tho Hans i Fe: Kgcde lu3 in Lerwick's harbor and wo -3 rite watched Dr. Cook leave tho ship with f kMIi the second mate to telegraph the news, v so long known by us, to the rest of tho & i" world. We stayed on the ship that no indiscretion should befall our distiu- v i-' guished fclloAV passenger. Quietly he "" v f went in, quietly came back. The cap- c f- tain met him on the deck with our con- iv t gratulations. and we greeted him with , hearty hurrahs from under the Danish 1 b Hag. ? ; "It was a happ3" momonfc when wn :j steamed into Copenhagen. AYe had a banquet on board the evening before, lw and honored tho bold Amorican oxploror J. in speech and song. This was but tho - prelude to the official celebrations ten- WH,' derod him whon he left our narrow so- -J9.-ciotA for that of the whole, wide world. All wo who were with him remember yfK him as the fine, inspiring man. Our tfl best wishes will tollow Dr. Cook ws whorever he goes." 1 |