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Show Believes Both Men Found Pole. Washington. "That dispatch from Peary means that he has finally achieved what he has so long been after." af-ter." said Henry Cannett. an old friend of Peary, and vice president of the National Geographic society. "I am awfully glad that he has reached the North Pole, whether he was the first lo reach there or not. He certainly worked hard enough to get there. Such a dispatch from Peary would signify only his own achievement. Even if Cook was there first, whatever he left there would have floated miles away." |