AMUNDSEN'S WORK

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1640, 6 January 1913, Page 4

AMUNDSEN'S WORK

„ HIS AMENDED PLANS. In an' interview , with ; tho Ixmdon "Daily Chroniclo," Captain Amundson eaid:—"Aa to the.futuro, iriy plans havo beori a little altered, but not radically. Tho'expedition for 1910 is postponed until 19U, that ifl nil, I lecturo in England from November 19 to Decombor.l4. ; That is the anniversary -ot tho day wo reached tho Pole, and) 'naturally, it will always be a memorable date to, me. After that, I go. to Paris and Rome, and then for sis months I shall bo lecturing in America, When that ( tour is finished, I turn again to tho business of irty life. The From will then bo at San Francisco; perhaps she will be able to add to her varied experiences by going through the Panama-Canal. We, start from .San Francisco in June, 19i4, and hopo to get into tho ico at. the B.ehritag Strait in September. Then we shall drift, perhaps for four, perhaps for five, years. It depends very much on how far we get into the ice the first ytar. And we shall emorgo when the time' oomes between Spitsbergen and Greenland. There is an. immense lot of work to be donO in theso latitudes— purely scientific work-in: bounding find dredging and meteorological observations. "No, I do not propose to take an aeroplane with me, eaid the decidedly, "and though I have boon offered the gift of a, wireless installation; for tho From, that, also,' I havo declined. I don't care tor it. It, is very much better to be without news when you oannot bo where tho lwks eewes from. We are always more contented if we get no news. A good boot wo like; we, explorers—that is our best amusement and our best UnioIriller." '•