Archive image from page 10 of Discovery of the North Pole Discovery of the North Pole : Dr. Frederick A. Cook's own story of how he reached the North Pole April 21st, 1908, and the story of Commander Robert E. Peary's discovery April 6th, 1909 discoveryofnorth00mill Year: 1909 INTRODUCTION arctic episodes of 1909 have engrossed tlie attention of the United States, where feeling and interest have been aroused to an extent unequaled by any other news of the period. That two Americans should have reached the North Pole independently would be most gratifying to the na- tional pride at any time,
Archive image from page 10 of Discovery of the North Pole Discovery of the North Pole : Dr. Frederick A. Cook's own story of how he reached the North Pole April 21st, 1908, and the story of Commander Robert E. Peary's discovery April 6th, 1909 discoveryofnorth00mill Year: 1909 INTRODUCTION arctic episodes of 1909 have engrossed tlie attention of the United States, where feeling and interest have been aroused to an extent unequaled by any other news of the period. That two Americans should have reached the North Pole independently would be most gratifying to the na- tional pride at any time, but that such journeys should be made over separate routes and in successive years borders on the manelous. Especial interest attaches, therefore, to their methods, routes and experiences. Dr. F. A. Cook established in 1907 his headquarters most primitively with the Etah Eskimo some two hun- dred and fifty miles from the Arctic sea. He took the field in native fashion, with Eskimo assistants, and select- ing a novel route traveled through regions well-known to abound in game. Attaining the North Pole with two Eskimos, April 21, 1908, he was subjected in his return to the vicissitudes and extreme dangers of a diifting polar-pack, and spent an awful winter in Jones* Sound region, whence his return in 1909 was hazardous and diffi- cult. Commander Peary approached the task by again estab- lishing his ship's quarters in 1908 on the very shores of the Arctic Ocean, across whose drifting ice-pack he suc- cessfully made his journey, reaching the pole April 9, 1909. Thus he accomplished by energy and resourceful- ness the great task to which he has applied himself for some twenty-three years. Late Commander Lady Franklin Bav Expedition.
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