THE RANGITIKEI SEAT.

West Coast Times, 4 September 1909, Page 3

THE RANGITIKEI SEAT.

SPEAKER'S WARRANT ISSUE!).

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THE NORTH VM REACHED.

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PROFESSOR DAVID'S OPINION.

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SYDNEY, September C- I'roL'-oor David considers it very probable that Dr Cook discovered land in the eytrpine north. All soundings taken by Nonsen and other explorers indicated the presence of a very deep ocean at the Pole. The existence of isolated land of volcanic nature is possible, but a large stretch of land is unlikely.

Mi- Douglas Mawson considers the report that Dr Cook discovered the Pole might veil be believed. He thinks he probably journeyed north the year before md wintered in a hut built on ice and relying on walrus food, made a dash for the Pole afterwards with the appearance of the sun. That would explain his absence for two years It seems to Mr Mawson' that it would be quite feasible to reach the Pole so early in the season. LONDON, Sept. 3.— The Paris edition of the New York Herald as commenced publishing details of the early stages of Dr Cook's journey. The party left Annatok on 19th February with 11 men,' 103 dogs and U sledges and started to cross the Polar Sea on the 18th March, from Heidberg Island at which stage some Esquimos with 8 number of dogs and suplics of food returned.

LONDON, Sept. 3— Dr Cook, interviewed by the New York Herald, said he felt the bite of the cold, especially on the heights bordering Ellesmere Sound. The temperature was &S degrees below zero centrigade. Several dogs were -frozen and the men suffered cruelly.

Along the game tracks at Nansen Sound to Landsend we killed 101 musk oxen, 7 bears, and 325 hares.

Crossing the circumpolar p:\ok we commenced on the 21st of March, 1008, with two Eskimos and 26 dogs accompanying.

We experienced long marches for the first few days', amidst persistent winds.

We were cooped in snow houses, eating dried beef, and tallow, and drinking hot tea. We made observations on the ]3th March in latitude 84, decimal <*7, longitude 86, decimal 36. Here the last signs of solid earth were found. We advanced over a monotony of a moving sea of ice, which contained neither 1 bears footprints nor seals' blowholes. The ice fields became beyond 86 degrees parallel more extensive. Crevasses were fewer and less troublesome. There was little or no crushed ice as barriers.

Was surprised to" see indications of land.

The ice extended from 87tli to 6-Sth parallel. We were now within 100 miles of the Pole, and the temperature was -lOdej;. below zero.

Signs of land were still seen, but they wore deceptive elusions, and mirages inverted the mountains. We made good daily observations. It was a depressing and monotonous scene.

THE POLE REACHED. On the 21st April at 89 degrees 50 minutes 46 seconds the Pole was in sigbt. We advanced the 14 seconds and made supplementary observations. The flag was raised to coveted breezes of the North Pole, with the temperature 38 below .zero centrigrade, barometer 29.83. The compass pointing to the Magnetic Pole -vas usefuf as ever endless fields of purple snows, with no life, no land, no spot to relieve the monotony.

We turned homewards on the 123 rd

Long distances at first were quickly covered, as we had to watch the daily reduction of the food supply.

We readied on the 24th of May 8«lth parallel near 97 meridian and found the ice much broken.

We had on the sledges scarcely enough food to reach our caches at Nansen Sound.

We hardly equalled the ten instead of the necessary 15 miles per day.

A course was set for the musk on lands.

The temperature rose to zero and amidst persistent mists we strnj.ry.led for twenty days through fog and found ourselves far down in Crown Prince Gustav Sea.

In a few days bears came along, and they proved life savers. We crossed the Firth of Devon into James Sound. Frosts early in September barred our progress. Neither food, fuel, ammunition nor implements were at hand. We shaped for Cape Spardo and selected a likely place for gams, and a bow and arrow yielded moat, skins, and fat.

An underground den was propped and there we remained until sunrise of 1900, and started on the 18th February lor Annatok, and we leashed Greenland shores on the 15th April.

DR COOK'S STORY DISCREDITED. Though Dr Cook is a person of hiinh reputation some are still sceptical in England. France and America. Shackleton does not thiuk the long .time occupied on the return tells against Dr Cook's statements.

The Daily Mail describes the narrative as bald and unconvincing. NEW YORK, Sept. 3.— Admiral Melville, of the United States Navy, utter reading Dr Cook's narrative, declares himself convinced that the reported discovery is a farce.

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