Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1909 — FAITH OF NATIVES IN COOK [ARTICLE]

FAITH OF NATIVES IN COOK

Fathers Follow Sons Who Were Willing to Risk Lives. Gothenberg, Sweden, Sept. 3.—Dr. Otto Nordenskjold, the explorer who has Just returned from an arctic voyage, describes an interview he had with Knud Rasmussen, the Danish student, in Greenland, who spent a winter with the Cape York Eskimos together with Dr. Cook. Rasmussen told Dr. Nordenskjold that the Eskimos at first absolutely declined to follow Dr. Cook owing to the risk. At last some young men declared themselves willing to aid him and at the moment of starting several highly experienced men joined the party, saying that they would not leave their sons and would not forsake this man who had trusted them.