The Search for the North Pule.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 41, 17 August 1896, Page 2

The Search for the North Pule.

DR. NANSEN'S EXPEDITION. (Per Press Association.) London, August ]."}. Dr Nansen was at Olrnek in September, 1898. He was unsible to obtain further dogs, and drifted to tho North- West. He was ice bound nniil iJunrh 14, l!S f JS, when he left his vessel, the Fram. All were in excellent health, but the. thermometer was several degrees below zero. They obtained light by means of electri city, the power for which was generated by a windmill. Dr Nansen says the that Frnm resisted an enormous pressure. Nansen and Johansen started northward with '28 dogs, 3 sledges and 2 canoes, and after travelling across rough ice reached the degree of 86 14tnin, on April 7. There was then no sign of land or sea, but merely hummocks on the horizon resembling frozen breakers. Owing to the shortness of dogs they started for Franz Josef Land. Their watches had stopped, and for weeks they were without reckoning. Gradually they killed all the dogs for sustenance, and reached northern Franz Josef Land on August 26, and remained there until May 19, when they started for Spitzbergen with sledges and canoes. All the party were in excellent health, and in travelling casually met with Jackson on the ice, on June lli near Cape Flora, and they remained in Jackson's quarters until the Windward's arrival. Great scientific results are anticipated from Dr Nansen's trip, and the leader is confident that the crew are safe. The Walrus was wrecked in the northern regions ; Nansen's canoe, too, had a narrow escape. Dr Nansen asserts that if he had had sufficient dogs he would have reached the Pole. ________