Show PE RY CONFISCATED COOKS PROVISIONS PRO VISIONS I oJ Sept remarkable 1 letter givIng Dr A Cook of f the trouble wIth Com over oer In The letter loller was written by Dr Norman Hansen Han cn n a prominent Danish ph who sev sevra r 11 Greenland to oYo dIs ea es Dr Cook told the tain to one Of oC his bis closest American friends just Juet a week ago before Corn Com mandor P Peary on the hut but said ho bo did not Intend to th mak it ft public it might load to unpleasantness Dr Hansen Hannon was with Dr Cook for lime time In Greenland and returned him on the tho Danish government camer has Hns Egede Now Noro that Dr Cook has gone ho he I am no longer under my any oh ob to keep silent and will exorcise GOY right to publish the stary about V In the story which Dr Cook Md d too much delicacy to relate to toLO I w LO world I write It from rom memory 5 Dr Cook told It to me and I am I lIv convinced that In no details are aro aromy my recollections wrong Story of the tho House Dr Cook had built hIs hou for tor In An a took north or of Etah Etab and It was this depot which ho started to roach rench In february 1909 Smith sound sund It was a pretty prett largo large house Douse the walls being built buill of oC heavily tilled provision cases so that Dr C iok bk know that when this Important point was eer everything was safe had before the thc start given I 1 permission to a Young oung friend named to use the honse while hunt bunt buntIng log Ing musk oxen for sport in tite lUe winter j of oC When Whon Dr Coo Cook and his two Eski Eskimos mos exhausted and hate half starved came wIthin a short distance of the tho house bouso In young came camo out ot to I I bid him welcome but the house houseas was as a stranger a slant giant I I on watch This man had been placed in Dr Cooks CookA house by Peary when the latter passed Etah I I with his ship bound north Dorth Peary had given gien the boatswain a written order which commenced with the tho following word SaId Cook Wa Dead I I b house use belongs to Dr FredeIck fek ck 1 A nut hut Dr Cook Is long IonS ago dead antI and ther It no ure us to search arch at aC atter tel ter hIm Therefore I 1 Commander Install m mi 1 boatswain in this d house This paper r the tho boatswain who ho I could neither read nor exhibited to Dr Cook and the ilie latter laller took a copY I copy however he does docs not In Intend Intend tend to io publish if course courso does doc not force orca him to do SO Dr DI Cook gave me Inc a account or how the young Whitney during the i winter was treated like a doS dog b by the boatswain and how he be had d the sailor bartering Dr Coo Cooks s pro for food and bear skins for Dr Cook also had to put a good face on the unpleasant situation Ho bad to beg to get Into his own and had to make a with the tho boatswain 4 Dr Cook made mado n a present ot of the tho I with wilh alt all Its contents to his two faithful Eskimos with the provision that Whitney was to hn have the tho use usa ol of the as long as his hunting trip lasted but he was to let Jet the bo boatswain continuo his watch The boatswain however d S strict QT ders deIs not to exchange any more mora or of the tho provIsions or guns gins I TO Mr Whitney Dr Cook gave sava bia Instructions and his as ashe ashe he thought these precious things were safer than on th long sledge gc trIp in inthe inthe the spring across Melville bay a but all alJ his note hooks and l soiled record books book h hn hav been so M closely n upon lilOn he kept kepl and carried with him To me mc who understands only very astronomy the tho record written down dou so 50 close closely I and in all directions were vcr very hard to read but what Is the record to us The two mono mon Pery Peary and Cook their character their con conduct conduct duct throw a sidelight on their na natures natures tures |