AN EXPLORER’S FATE.
IN THE FROZEN NORTH. (Per Press Association.) Christiania, January 8. Captain Ritscher, belonging to the party preceding Schroederstrantz German expedition, starting next June in an endeavour to make the North-East Passage, has arrived at Advent Bay, Spitsbergen. Ho reports that his companions are starving on the northern coast, and in the last stages of scurvy. They sent him and two others to seek help. He left his comrades exhausted by cold and hunger at Wyde Bay. He twice escaped death through the ice yielding, but his dog rescued him. He ate the last tallow candle on Christmas Day. He arrived with his clothes cut off and his body and feet frozen. A relief expedition has been sent.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 9, 9 January 1913, Page 2
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120AN EXPLORER’S FATE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 9, 9 January 1913, Page 2
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