Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1909 — PEARY ACCUSED OF CRUELTY TO ESKIMOS [ARTICLE]

PEARY ACCUSED OF CRUELTY TO ESKIMOS

Missionary Says He Left Women On Ice Without Food, Copenhagen, Oct. B.—Captain C. E. Borchgrevink, the Antarctic explorer, who is about to undertake another expedition there, has expressed opposition to the proposed submission of Dr. Cook’s records to the University of Copenhagen and to the committee of the American Geographical society. He declares that this procedure will not prove satisfactory because he considers that both bodies are prepossessed in favor of Dr. Cook. Captain Borchgrevink suggests that the Geographical Society of Geneva, as an unprejudiced body, should be asked to settle the matter. A Greenland clergyman named Ludwigs, who is a member of the Capo York mission, and is acquainted with both Dr. Cook and Commander Peary, has opened a campaign against the Ist ter, reiterating some old allegations as to his ill-treatment of the Eskimos. Among other charges, he alleges that Commander Peary once deserted a -band of women and children on the Ice without food because they hindered the rapid advance of his expedition.