POLAR EXPLORATION.
COMMANDER PEARY INTERi VIEWED, NOT GOING TO THE SOUTH POLE. i DR COOK'S CLAIMS. (Press Association. — Copyright.) I NEW YORK, Saturday. ; Commander Peary declares that he j will not participate in any effort) to | reach the South Pole. Interviewed, j ConunanJcr P«ary said Iks rcgMta ho did , tiot take Mr Bartlet with him to the ; Pole, though he ia satisfied that the • scientific world will implicitly accept His j statement that he really readied the Pole. Commander Peary added Mr Whitney told him in August that Dr Cook ! claimed to have reached the Pole, and ;Dr Cook's Esquimos being at Etah, Peary obtained from them statements I and rough drawings showing that Cook ' made only two marches over Polar ice i and then returned.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 20 September 1909, Page 4
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