REASONS FOR SUCCESS. LESSONS FROM THE ESKIMOS. COURSE TAKEN BY THE EXPEDITION.
COPENHAGEN, 4th September. Dr. F. A. Cook, the discoverer of the North Pole, interviewed on his arrival here, stated that he struck out west from Greenland, then northward, and, returning from the pole, he took a more westerly route. During the last fortnight before reaching the pole he took daily observations, abo during tho first ten days homewards, but he took no measurements of the depth of the sea, because he had no instruments for that purpose. Dr. Cook ascribed his success to using old means — namely, Eskimos and dogs, and to living the same as the Eskimos. OTTAWA, 4th September. Mr. W. F. King, Dominion Astronomer, thinks if Dr. Cook encountered smooth ice, it was quite posisble to reach the pole.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1909, Page 7
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