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Received September 5, 5.15 p.m. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 4. Dr. Cook, interviewed on his arrival in Denmark, stated that he struck out west from Greenland and then riorthward, returning from the pole he took a more westerly route during the last fortnight. Before reaching the Pole he took daily ob servations, also during first ten days returning homewards, but no measurements oi: the depth of the sea, the Doctor having no instruments for the purpose. He ascribed his success to using tbe old means, namely, Eskimos and dogs, and living on the aame diet as the Eskimos.
WHAT AN ASTRONOMER THINGS.
Receiver! September 5, 5.15 p.m. OTTAWA, September 4. Mr W. F. 'King, Dominion Astronomer, at Ottawa, thinks that if Dr. Cook encountered smooth ice. it is quite possiole that he did reach the North Pole.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9587, 6 September 1909, Page 5
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137FURTHER DETAILS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9587, 6 September 1909, Page 5
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