COOK'S CREDENTIALS.
■ ■ ~ .■-♦———'.. MAY ABANDON PROFITS TO PROVE HIS ■ p."'::...'■'.'''' ■:- CASE. • ■■'. ..■ ''■,'. . \}\j] Telccrapp.-rrcas Aasfrfnr>tn " ' ' London,■October-IB."'-The,. New York correspondent ■of "Tho Times" state? that Dr. Cook, jnoltJing to public demand, will tapiinate a .luprativp IcctrirT llff.tpnrJn ord*r fa establish,, iiis polar c)aim. 110, hps .-nrprnipcd' to' cancel hjs engagements. , . ['"Readers. of • bis boqk eiopt ■ the ascent' of Mount McKinley will recognise: their Dr; Cook "\, '1J' e H' >M S W '*' "' t " is $°fh" writes -the . V.- 1 ft!!' > [ al! Gazette." ''He pasted.' space- and time• in glorified conimonplnce 'abmit'-his feci- ■ .ings-qn the'summit, much as now" with'- /the 'purplosnows" of the Pole arqn'ml:niin7 he in- . dulgcs '-in -"purple reflections upon'.' thel'disap- . pearance pr time and the.points"of (he"cqm- ■ P"^l»tthe.Polo which ereryone could make in : a" New' York or London armchair,''. There is ' no bucshon-'wo'believe that he ilid reach the , loftiest .summit- in North America, and the fact that he has written once more in his own • stylo gives no reason tp suppose' that he 'h'as not;reached the highest latitude on earth,. It ipere|y-remains, for," him to rffoya ■ U,"] • '■■'-'.. '
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 642, 20 October 1909, Page 7
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174COOK'S CREDENTIALS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 642, 20 October 1909, Page 7
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