Show BEFORE DEFORE PEARY BROKE DROKE OUT Scientific American To set net 1 a question queston mark mark however small the message mua o tram front Dr Br Cook announcing that hc had reached the north pole pole would be he to betray a spirit of ungenerous and anil captious criticism The conditions condition of complete Isolation which must moat necessarily sur aur surround round the tile man loan lan who wo trim launches himself with two native nato helpers Into that un chartered sea ea of eternal silence and an frozen desolation are inch that the waiting world worl to which ho he returns If he ever return must needs accept his hl story 1101 of or a successful rul quest with without wih without out expectation of absolute verification or 01 rl F lor r the theoretical I a I point which we call cal the north pole lies as was warn Wi generally supposed and UK as I Dr Pr Cook Cok has hu now nol proved proe In a vast field feld of or eternally drifting Ice Any monument set sat et up ul by b the at the th exact axis ax or of O the earth In attestation of hits his hil crowning triumph would be I carried steadily down lowi over the dome of the world to be b ultimately lost In itt the tho more southerly Muthel RAO acos or cast cant up with other flotsam and jetsam on the Ulf northerly coasts loI In the Interests of scientific accuracy acrA there lIter tie will wi of or course he be a subsequent verification as fur Car as al It I Is II practicable of the th distances covered and of at the observations time the of nf sun aun as n nIken taken Iken during durin till this wonderful Journe journ but this Investigation will wil not be made because of ci any doubt as a to the actual Acul presence of nf Dr Cook on oil th the 2111 It of April IMS 1100 lO at tile the north vole pole lole The onan Ibn who an ran look hook lok death full ful In Inthe Inthe the th lila throughout all al the Ih cruel auf suf suffering fering of or a search Herl for the lle secret of the te In is I built buil upon lino too to noble nobl to tn admit of the th slight aught slightest est eat lIt subterfuge or misrepresentation there I ert are lue re certain features fl tU of Jjr TJ Cooks expedition notably the total ahnee n nf of ot ostentation In I the manner InsUlter of 01 o hl hi hiss setting out which should at lout learnt Itt have haa sealed 1 the Ihl Up lip of those these th who ho have hW received the th of ot hi b tan Leu with outspoken wrt Incredulity |