| Show SPRINGS sensational STORY friend of explorer cook accuses peary of taking possess on of H s rival rivals s arct c retreat copenhagen the iken publishes a remarkable letter giving dr fredecick A cooks version of 0 the tromble tremble with commander peary over supplies the letter was written by dr iceman hansen a prominent danish physician who several times visited greenland to study eye dis eases now that dr cook has gone be he writes I 1 am no longer under an dobli gallons to keep silent and will exer else my right to publish the about the house in ahnatook Anna took a story which dr cook himself had too much deat delicacy cacy to relate to the world I 1 write it from memory as dr cook told it to me and I 1 am fully con vinced that in no detail are my decol sections wrong dr cook had built his house for stores in n ahnatook Anna took north of etah and it was this depot which he started to reach in february 1909 crossing smith sound it was a pretty large house the walls being built of heavily filled provision boxes so that dr cook knew know that when this important point was reached everything was sate safe he ile had before the start given peral sion slon to a young friend named whit ney to use the house while hunting musk oxen for sport in the winter of 1908 1909 when dr cook and his two eski mos exhausted and half starved came within a short distance of the house in ahnatook Anna took young whitney came out to bid him welcome but inside the house was as a stranger a giant ne new found land boatswain on watch this man had been placed in n dr cooks cook a house by peary when the latter passed etah with his ship bound north peary had given the boatswain a writ ten order which commenced with the following words this house belongs to dr fred crick erick A cook but dr cook Is long ago dead and there is no use to search after him therefore I 1 commander rooert E D peary install my boatswain in this deserted house this paper the boatswain who co ild neither read nor write exhibited to dr cook and the latter took a copy chiq copy however he does not in tend to sh it if peary s co birse does not force him to do so dr cook gave me a lively account pf p how the young millionaire whitney during the whole winter was treated like a dog by the boatswain and how he had witnessed the sailor bartering dr cooks cook a pro vis ong for fox and bear skins for him self dr cook also had to put a good face on the unpleasant situation he had to beg to get into his own house and had to make a compromise with the boatswain |
