THE POLAR EXPEDITION.

Hastings Standard, Issue 96, 17 August 1896, Page 3

THE POLAR EXPEDITION.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE ADVENTURE. Loxbox, August 15. Dr. Nansen was in Olencx River in September, 1893. He was unable to obtain further dogs, and drifted northwest. He was ice bound until March, 14th, 1895, when he left his vessel, the Fram. All were in excellent health but the thermometer was several degrees below zero. They obtained light by means of electricity, power for which was generated by a windmill which gave admirable results. Dr. Nansen says that the Fram resisted the enormous ice pressure. Nansen and Johansen started northward with 28 dogs, three sledges, and two canoes, and after travelling across rough ice reached the degree of 86.14 on April 7th. There was then no sign of land but merely hammocks on the horizon resembling frozen breakers. Owing to shortness of dogs they ptarted for Franz Josef Land. Their watches had stopped, and for weeks they were without reckoning. They gradually killed all the dogs for sustenance, and reached northern Franz Josef Land on August 26th and remained there until May 19th, when they started for Spitzbergen with the sledges and canoes. All the party were in excellent health, and in travelling casually met with Jackson on the ice on June 27th near Cape Flora, and remained in Jackson's quarters until the Windward's arrival. Great scientific results are anticipated from this trip, and the leader is confident that the crew is safe. The Walrus was wrecked in the northern regions. Nansen's canoe, too, had a narrow escape. He asserts thai, if be had had sufficient dogs he wwidhaye reached the Pole.