ANDREES BALLOON.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 167, 13 July 1912, Page 17

ANDREES BALLOON.

A SENS ATI O-vAL ESKIMO TALE. I< _. _-_.-__-_.._,._-._. _....-.._,... ._.___.. _ l I 1 i Christian Laden, a Norwegian explorer. ; ! has returned to the United -tares with | i | what he believes to be the first evidence . i lof the fate of Andree's balloon. l__deu .<: : was commission., by tbe Roy..-! Museum ] jof Berlin, the University of Berlin, and:-. ; Lii" University of Christiai-ia to explore th" ] .: , unknown region of north-western Canada, i ' i an-! -•. .l.taiii data a__K-' the Indian tribe- j,] in :_ vz.on. some of which have neve- ; . i..-r..:-- ..'":i visited by whit.- men. , ;i i A* a point two bundred mlie-s north by , : wes: -if :"_- pint at \.u!"h .- has been ' 1 I generally i-ciievoi! tlnr: Andre-- peri.tied. j I j Paden en-.lUtttered a tribe ••_ Eskimos. It. I who related _ story __. -ai..- effe---. that sp-v-. i j, I eral years __■> a large bubble f .1 from .he i j : heavens, .-.-.ntain'ln _ nrj creatures supposed ! -] i:o tie •"devils." and that th-"*" creatures ! . wore able to hurl fe>rrh fire and thunder ' t : from Strang" implements that th'-y carried. i ; I Tie- members of th" tribe attacked _» j ; two '-reainres. and succeeded in killing i i one- of them with arrows, whereupon the j >-;_"■- made motions to rhem sic__ify!_.g I l iha: _.•» and us companion we-e .htwHin-- . c 'a: birds for foci and had o.vme in peae. . , t When the Eskimos realised that they . ! had attacked htnnan beings, who had no 1 I nnfriendly motive, they fled in dismay, I leaving the surviving •orhl-te man alone, t 1 jetting th e surviving man alone, J tWitai bsc_jne o* __t_a __-tsK-__> -not iaow. :