Show DRo R COOK WRITES OF illS filS o Ottawa a Oct Oel of the Canadian steamer ArN Arctic c today made mad a letter writt n to Lo him hr by Dr Frederick A tool ook May Ia 23 delivered to Captain r on Sop Sep 1 at Greenland It sa says My i dear Captain 1 havo hao to 10 write yoU the first letter after having ben been seated behind ICe barriers for two years it Il was your our supplies so o kind lelnd ly hy left leCt in charge of Mr lr Whitney which tided aided mp me greatly In getting to I Upp All m amy other property hall had been taken by y Pear antler the guise Of n a relief reller Murphy the theman man In char charge e or of the how I over eer wa was not to ensa engage e lii In any relief efforts not to lo allow Eski mas 1105 to cross and search until March I the following year Car 1909 My 1 largo large Store of anti and my mr station was wasI I used for barter with to sat lafy commercial Fortunately we were able to work workout workout out our problem without rell relief r except a as you offered We re have hac pushed Into Uw the boreal center n arid lid pIcked tho polar prize but the effort was vas dangerous beyond conception concepCion The assistance which you hu have given and the liberality of th the Canadian government in sending time ship Is a happy happ contrast t to the hind hindI rance nail atHI injustice of one of my own I countrymen Cook Describes Journey Describing time tho to tho pole I Dr Cook says from On Fe ru ary 19 we crossed J land pushed alon along its west western em coast cont to the pOint sea feeding cd In ten Eskimos and dogs en route rouLe on musk ox antI bears Front From Si 84 north I started with but hUL two Young Eskimos anti 26 dogs pulling two sleighs and supplies I for 80 days The Tho Ice was fine after I J crossing SI 84 degrees was sighted and pass cd and a new land found to Lo the north of It extending 85 degrees Beyond I no flO was as seen een The polo pole was wasI I I reached April 21 1908 The return I forced slightly westward op on the northward but about 85 degrees we ve drifted east cast and south Bolo Below Si 81 we wc hind had drifted with an active pack We were helplessly carried carrid to the west unable to teach reach our caches along Nansen sound Ve were pushed Into Prince Gustave sea with food and fuel exhausted Still unable to press east easL eastward ward We Went with the Ice to the sOuth Polar bears canio to our res rescue cue cuo as savors We thon themi went In Into into to Wellington channel hoping to be beable beable able to reach whalers in Lancaster but bul w we wore soon stopped slopped b brailing by railing failing food supplies and young oung small Ice Without Food or Fuel With no game this short route to Lo Loan toan an early ship was not nol longer possible and to sa satisfy li s f the pangs oc o hunger we worked to Jones sound Nero Here after a long Tun of hard adventure by y boat I and n a cruel necessity forced imS s into winter camp In September at Cape without fuel or food or wInter clothing with no dogs no guns Our situation was almost hopeless but fortune came our way Bows Bow m aid d darrows arrows harpoons lances and other implements wore made The music ox and bear benr were taken taIleD with lines The lance lanco anti amI knife secured us small game Fo Foxes es were trapped walruses and seals attacked and secured In our little folding canvas boat An under underground underground ground den was built and time winter of 1 passed with a taste lasLe of e cv sac savo fresh meat meal We had hadnot not nol a of civilized food not nol oven oen salt A new equIpment was dei devised ant antas as soon is as the tho sun of 1909 rose over ocr the tho hills of North orth Dl Devon von we sL for In February 1919 drag draggIng gIng Dried d Musk Ox meat as food and melted tallow as fuel for thirty das clays dason clayson on sledges Deep snow bad Ice open water anti continued storm mn made e the tho return slow and arduous Vo Ve reach reached ed cd after a iun of hard luck hick hickon on April 6 5 Here we C were plot by bJ I emily nl lo find that Pears I eans hall had our station with Its ts under the of Mr Whitney We enjoyed ell good health I at all times limes |