A Visit from Nansen.
» Mr Carlyle Smythe, son of Mr R. S. Smythe, the well-known entrepreneur, was a passenger on board of the German Mail steamer Bremen which arrived at Melbourne about afortnight ago. Mr Smythe has had a long tour since he left Australia with " Mark Twain " three years ago, having been through India, then to Mauritius, and through South Africa for the fourth time. He has been in every capital in i Earope. In Brussels he occupied ; bis time in literary and journalistic I work. Speaking to a Pres3 re presentative in Adelaide, Mr Smythe i said :—" Last November I had a letter from Dr Nansen, addressed < Torn his house at Lysaka, near i 3 hristiania. Dr Nansen has for ] lome time been desirous of paying t .ustralia a visit ; in fact, ever since t .is return from his trip in search of t he North Pole, but he has not been i tble to get through his mass of 1 icientifio work connected with the 1 xpedition. He has every hope now a if coming to Australia towards the . md of next year. There is a a ikelihood of Dr Nansen's services a leing reqnired for an expedition to i
the Antarctic region. Whilst in Vienna I came across Mr Clemens (' Mark Twain '), who is now engaged in writing a book dealing with politics."
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Manawatu Herald, 5 January 1899, Page 2
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227A Visit from Nansen. Manawatu Herald, 5 January 1899, Page 2
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