The Search for Herr Andree.
(Per Mail Steamer.)
Some interesting particulars have been received from Christiania regarding the search for Herr Andre'e. According to the story told by Captain Kramer, of the relief ship Victoria, they left Tromsoe on the Cth inst., and about a week later made the land on Daumands Islands. The search instituted here showed no sign of any human being. Rockets and all kinds of signals were sent up, the Victoria's syren was blown, and Bengal lights were burned all night. At four in the morning, and again at 10 on the following day, parties of the crew landed, but they could see nothing of any wreck or balloon or man. Four men out in a boat tried shouting with all their might in chorus with the idea of testing whether the noises heard by the whalers could possibly have been the voices of Andrea or his companions. Though the boat was only a mile from the ship not a sound could be heard on board. At length, on the 16tb, as further search was clearly useless, a start was made for home. The darkness was so intense that the man who was steering in the middle of the day could not see a single man in the fore part of the ve3sd.
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Manawatu Herald, 8 February 1898, Page 3
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217The Search for Herr Andree. Manawatu Herald, 8 February 1898, Page 3
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