CALL OF THE WILD.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 72, 17 March 1914, Page 2

CALL OF THE WILD.

BTEFANBBON EXPEDITION NEW YORK, March h Mr Stefansson (who is in tiio supposed Arctic continent) j„, « sago brought' by trapper* i. o m S* Pherson states that lie believes [Lt* luk is on the wlar drift, and hj»« fears for the vessel's fate. g %

In his final message to the'r>iihii.t fore the expedition sailed last J u „ J Stefansson remarked: It is of conri* possible to guess what fortune n, * tend the voyage of the Karluk f„?,,* is so largely a matter of wind' an . ther that good management an > ough equipment are but see.mdin ?' tors of success. That the exmXv* thoroughly equipped is all tint * say of it for the oresent. The <•!, "> ot its management will dcvelm, »" day to day, and it will he <,2 years from now, if no disaster us that,twill be possible to dS relative value of the factors th , 3 for its success or failure. Til * many better vessels afloat tlia?* 1 Karluk although she has alreafc Jj stood the Polar ice through „, L** sons and is as sound now as W C* She has „ Captain Uartlott master whose experience, gaid , ? Admiral Peary, places him i Ttf rank in the world among ice navil " but the Beaufort Sea, north o| Ift varies in its ice conditions nerln^r 1 from season to season than part of tlie North Polar Sea Til T uk has at least two rhances J* three of penetrating to Hersd,,.]! r, and of sailing thence northward f greater or less distance bev. d l' furthest attained by any tons, \L} ore in that quarter, for „ 0 vo J* there has ever stood off shore L * tor anything but whales A search is never prosecuted |arih, r £ 200 miles i,oni land, even who,, ,! 's sighted at the farthest nor) *

FOUND IN THE BUSH, XKWCASTLK. M ;tl -ch !{ in regard to the ihiding ot \|,-s v i Jf.ftre.Ys, the wireless 'ft Mairson Antarctic expedition „ / fausted condition h/tbe l,„', ' g ho had been wandering !,>,- ,;.. ? practically without food" I),- i states that Mr Jeffreys (v;.' „„' f "? Party which was left ;i*|,nre\ L % jvealth Bay to work the wu-el"I h r il,Jl , t»"M <uul his mental <,,ndirS showed weakness. He i,,,,., '"J* spatch an extraordinary „,£„. „ < J n-as relieved ol his wireles, ( |„n ; ft * MaeLean sparing no pains t( , £ Jim re,of. Ho appeared to rmv * "•hen he landed at Adela.de hj„ £* quit© normal. He was „aid J „F te»d«l to return to hi" 1