PEARY AND COOK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 645, 23 October 1909, Page 5

PEARY AND COOK.

.EASMUSSEN ON ESKIMO..EVIDENCE. (By. Tclcßraph--Press r Aß6ooiationVOopyrlgbt.) "-. ■ ; Copenhag6n, ; October 21, tho. Copenhagen, -..newspaper:■' "Politihen" publishes a statement- by-tho'.Danish oxplorer Mr. Knud' Easmusseu,' that - after qucstiofiiuff . Dr. Cook's Eskimos lie arrived at the Conclusion that. Cook had reached tho Pole. ■Whore it was possible, to-compare Dr.' Cook's report with tho, statements, of' his 'companions, it had proved-trustworthy. •■ ,',':::':. -.-.•' iRASMUSSEN AND! PEARY-'CONFLICT OF ; A,,; >. ;Knud Easmusscn',is nu■authority on all ■jwkmio.. questions. Ilis -.mother was an fcskimo, and ..his cntiro, life has been passed among tho people of tho north.:K ■ :■ . The two people who, according to Dr. Cook,' accompanied hiinY to; the North Polo-nro the .twenty-year-old Eskimo -Vboys"-as' he calls thcm-Ahwelsh and' Etukishuk:■'.' ■ Basmusson, who. endorses Dr. .Cook's claim.'says ho crossexamined tho Eskimos; first: singly, and then together;-:and-he--vouches' 'ifo'r' theiri traitworthiness.- '; . :;■ It was the evidence of Easmussen, telegraphed from.'Greenland to' Copenhagen, that -helped 1 to convince Dr. Egan.Vthe American Minister at Copenhagen, upon whomthe responsibility for Dr. Cooks, status largely fell,when tho American- explorer reached .the Danish capital in September. ...-., i'o.v..'.-> ! v.; , ' ■ On.tho other; hand,: there;'afethel statements of Peary and his colleagues that' tho oudonco of these samo Eskimos shows Vth'at'Dr. Cook ' did not'go out of sight of land! ; >i■'.'.., : ; According- td aCopenhagen, correspondent, a meeting held .in that city, nt: which nil tho members of • the Greenland'.'-;; -Administration and Dr. Lgnh, the Minister, weie present, decided that Knud Easmussen; and UlO two Eskimos should, bo fetched'to'Copenhagen as soon as possible. i>; :':"',','.