Show CROCKER lAND REAl SAYS ADMIRAL PEAR PEA U IL NEW YORK Aug 26 Rear Rear A Amiral mimi miral Robert E. E Peary reiterates hi V confidence in the existence of Crock Crocker Land and his belief that he ho saw it I In S ft July 1906 The admirals admiral's statement telegraphed to the Tribune from hi his 1 summer place In Maine was called I forth by the fact tact that thaI Ensign Fitzhugh h 1 Green the naval officer assigned to Ii the MacMillan Macl Crocker Land Lan arctic ex ex cx- cx made no report ot oZ whether the expedition found Crocker Land in la announcing to the navy department lila his safe arrival at Copenhagen on August August Au Au- gust 19 ai After Arter quoting from his original M nar- nar X of his expedition the story of his first view of ot what he believed t to tobo Of bo be Crocker Land Admiral Peary sal uld sald It may be that MacMillan and I were both misled by the nearly permanent per pert ry La manent clouds of condensation oe over ovel persistent lanes of water Or l Z refraction which occurs in the arctic t regions may have lifted into view land 14 that was wag In reality well below the hort- hort t zon and my estimate of the distance distaste C 0 Q of ot Crocker Land may have been t to tot t moderate It will be well WE'll to await the 9 i completion of discoveries before dismissing Crocker Crock Land |