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Evening Star, Issue 11661, 16 December 1902, Page 1

The Russian journal ‘Yenisei’ contains remarkable account of a moving arctic island. It was situated near Cape Ensski, Sarovoj.had an animal life of its own, and was inhabited by human beings. Some time since it began to show signs of shifting from its moorings, and quite recently it disappeared, with all upon it, during the night, and there has ever ginco been a vanished landmark, upon the mystery of which no light has yet been thrown, though* a Russian warship has been despatched to make every possible search. To make the story still more strange, the ‘Yenisei ’ states that it is not without precedent in d *.c regions, where icebergs become fixed, to all appearance permanently, that earth and seeds and bads are blown upon them, and presently, the brief bat broiling semiarctic sun oners,' ihore is a hpmriant vegeta • tiou. When this happens, bold spirits from the mainland are not long in following. The journal adds that more than one of f.thees ioeberg-islets has vanished, leaving no..thing but. unpenetrable n^tocs-behind.