Review of reviews and world's work . ly. My forty-pound kit per manfor the ascent of the mountain was the pio-neer of my irreducibly minimized outfit forthe rush to the Pole. We started three menfor the summit and three for the Pole. Yes, I replied, but you only got twoto the top of McKinley, leaving Dokkin halfway up. There was not enough food for three,and Dokkin wanted to stay, so Burrille andI went up alone, as you know. What is the meaning of the statementsin the newspapers as to the doubts about joursurveys? Only a controversy as to some fifty orseventy-five feet in the altitude. There w
Review of reviews and world's work . ly. My forty-pound kit per manfor the ascent of the mountain was the pio-neer of my irreducibly minimized outfit forthe rush to the Pole. We started three menfor the summit and three for the Pole. Yes, I replied, but you only got twoto the top of McKinley, leaving Dokkin halfway up. There was not enough food for three,and Dokkin wanted to stay, so Burrille andI went up alone, as you know. What is the meaning of the statementsin the newspapers as to the doubts about joursurveys? Only a controversy as to some fifty orseventy-five feet in the altitude. There wasa difference between the trigonometricalsurvey and the barometrical even 100 feet is a bagatelle when youare measuring a mountain 20,000 feethigh. Then after McKinley you rested for ayear, and started off in 1907? Yes. I sailed with my friend Mr. J. for the Arctic regions in July, 1907,on a hunting and exploring expedition Innorthern Greenland, and half hoped that Imight make that expedition a jumping-off. Cupyriijht, 1909. by the N. Y. HtrMd. DK. cooks wife and DAUGHTERS. place for the Pole. We made our prepara-tions accordingly, and so it came about. V.—THE START FOR THE POLE. Dr. Cook did not start for the Pole ^\ ith aprocession of brass bands. The newspapersof America were not converted into a hugemegaphone for the purpose of heralding hisdeparture. Hence the report of his arrivalat the Pole was received with incredulity andsurprise. Mrs. Brownings warning againstpumping spring water unawares upon agracious public full of nerves may be variesand extended to the sudden blurting outupon a humdrum world such a startling an-nouncement as that the great prize had beenwon by a man who nobody knew had everentered for the stakes. But Dr. Cook did not herald his departurewith a great fanfaronade of proclamation asto what he was going to do, because, in thefirst place, as he said, he prefers to defer talk-ing until after doing, and, in the secondplace,
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