DR. COOK 
it was only for a very short distance, not more 
than twenty or twenty-five miles. The boys 
are positive in this statement, and my own 
boys, Ootah and Ooqueah, have talked to 
them also, and get the same replies. It is a 
fact that they had a very hard time and were 
reduced to low limits, but they have not been 
any distance north, and the Commander and 
the rest of us are in the humor to regard Mr. 
Whitney as a person who has been hood- 
winked. We know Dr. Cook very well and 
also his reputation, and we know that he was 
never good for a hard day's work; in fact 
he was not up to the average, and he is no 
hand at all in making the most of his re- 
sources. He probably has spun this yarn to 
Mr. Whitney and the boatswain to make him- 
self look big to them. 
"The Commander will not permit Mr. 
Whitney to bring any of the Dr. Cook ef- 
fects aboard the Roosevelt and they have been 
left in a cache on shore. Koolootingwah is 
here again, after his trip to North Star Bay 
with Dr. Cook, and tells an amusing story 
of his experience." 
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