Editing Frederick Cook (section)

=== Early expeditions ===
Cook was the surgeon on [[Robert Peary]]'s Arctic expedition of 1891–1892, and on the [[Belgian Antarctic Expedition]] of 1897–1899. He contributed to saving the lives of its crew members when their ship – the {{RV|Belgica|1884|2}} – was ice-bound during the winter, as they had not prepared for such an event. It became the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. To prevent [[scurvy]], Cook went hunting to keep the crew supplied with fresh meat. One of the crew members was Roald Amundsen, who credited Cook with his survival in his diary of the expedition.

In 1897, Cook twice visited [[Tierra del Fuego]], where he met the English missionary [[Thomas Bridges (missionary)|Thomas Bridges]]. They studied the [[Selkʼnam people|Selkʼnam]] and [[Yahgan people|Yahgan]] peoples, with whom Bridges had worked for two decades. During this time, Bridges had prepared a manuscript on their language's grammar and a dictionary of more than 30,000 words. Several years later, Cook tried to publish the dictionary as his own.<ref name="parson">[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/05/21/104935739.pdf "Cook Tried to Steal Parson's Life Work"]. ''The New York Times'', May 21, 1910. Accessed October 3, 2013.</ref><ref>Bridges, E. L. (1948) The Uttermost Part of the Earth Republished 2008, Overlook Press ISBN 978-1-58567-956-0, Appendix II.</ref>