RIVAL EXPLORERS.
" COOK'S STUFF." STATEMENT BY PEARY. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received September 28, 8.35 a.m. NEW YORK, September 27. Commander Peary justifies his refusal to alhw what he calls "Cook s stuff" on board the Roosevelt, slating that he was aware of Cook's intentions to claim that he had reached the Polp, and was c'etermined not to aid his pmj ct. Mr Whitney states that Dr. Cook, in a new relief ship, was coming north, but owitig to the strained re ■ lations with Commander Peary, he preferred not to wait, but to go to the Danish settlements. FOSSILISED TROPICAL OBJECTS. A NATURALIST'S DISCOVERIES. Received September 28, 8.35 a.m. NEW YORK, September 27. Professor M'Millan, who accompanied Commander Peary's Polar expedition, states that he found a huge rock split open by frost bearing a perfect imprint of a great tropical fern, and also the petrified stump of a tree 18 inches in diameter. Fossil remains of tropical animals were found near Black Cape. In latitude 81 degrees N. fine coal seams were located.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9607, 29 September 1909, Page 5
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175RIVAL EXPLORERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9607, 29 September 1909, Page 5
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