“FARTHEST NORTH” WITH A CAMERA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

“FARTHEST NORTH” WITH A CAMERA.

.MOVING PICTURES OF Anffna- mi animals. i j ;}NH For the purpose of obtaining and pictures of Arctic museum tho Carnegie Institute' fi«H| burgh sent an expedition to.' *W**'»Bl Siberia. It was headed by : : Jf : & Kleinschmidt, experienced as *$$o!&yKm big game, who took with■ Hia i'»S%'riK* picture outfit. The party had §£| ventures. On one occasion on jA|||ffina| ern shores of Alaska ■ three pcW txtn'r I attacked the moving piatofe ma. tiurai it was necessary to ''iS/ctK 1 !! %M to protect, the operator, lhfey ww^^^j ped frozen to Pittsburgh,' ' : Pa,, s's MB sand miles away, where their • mtit I S eaten at a public dinner. Rssljmlj| were stuffed and are- now on i&lilin^isji at. the Carnegie Institute. -~i • '• . 1 On another occasion a mild pak JBSI was sighted swimming , aking i »t}tt2^Jprl'i|'l of Wrahgel Island. CaptM'n .^Sdly-fe miiit followed him in a boat.][or : :|iSfe;i|i miles. To escape his pursuers th» 'BBmBE swam under water for a 'coiai4Ji^ij|s||ji tp.nce, diving under ice floes aid sap]!£ "' I water below the surface. Point Wilt 1 . r « only their lore legs when swiia^t&';jlfc|*fp spito their huge size they can :^^teji|i| miles an hour with ease. * "' ' . Perhaps the most' remarkablfc filßfjp ■■'•] taloed was one showing a feffl&S paw' "; j boar towing her offspring through tijs icj; r{ water near VV'rangel Island, '^jrifi&ft'*^? degrees of th* North Pole.' ; {JrtttiMmi .schmidt, in a boat, followed the OMira|B|| nearly half an hour, during which 3afe|!| I the young bear held to his moihfir'* ifci '■] receiving occasional spankings ; ftNfeßßjfl grip became too firm. When te&'^fjol? men on the boat lassoed the young btK,| £ and tried' to pull him on board.•t&^Wpi&M attacked the boat and tried to <to ■ * : ' aboard. She put up such 1 * 5. ,WW: «HH» j that Captain Kleinschmidt cut 'Klflßf| I and allowed the cub to escape ■. '-' jp :.. 'fha islands along the \v€Bti*4ra' , .ehj^j. ; |*r.i& • Alaska are used by niUlions'of/piffl|m^;l I to lay their eggs: . Their , eggs aw m '.' I'.shaped that they can roil' only in a SAuj*, j and hence cannot fall into the --a 'Ekv •§, I egg has distinctive marks, so tlß*f * <i I bird that lays it can return to it.iwHiili ; difficulty. Captain Kleinschmidt «wpl $i j moving pictures of birds laying '<^»-»':| J hatching them out. ' - ' . i'. ■; Probably less is known abcai &*.*»* £ rus than any large animal m «ho Ak*i-' '£ He is frightened off by the flightus * and his skin is so thick that onl.vy*, **V I bullet in '"the brain lays him lens, ;.-,= i jßg^p adult male walrus has a harem of WS*"!f or thirty females, who make life « t:,% ' fortable as possible for him. Tbw **?_'. their tusks for digging clams 'or t*-*,^ torn of the ocean, on which they s^T' /exclusively. ' • _ ' J3Msm Photographing a polar beat' » " c * ,i enough, but taking moving P* c * i 'f'iSM 'him is as exciting as any on earth & , obtain good pictures it is nec?s6 3r ■ have tho machine within fifteen or**«*£:■ feet of the animal, who may «:'«£* *£ photographer without the' slight st ? K ";' ing. A crack shot with the nil* *£;; course, necessary to protect the P'JT*; ~' man, but on more than one cc«J>wnt*rV f ■ ! tain 'Kleinschmidt was badly '^^ |,^\!?., . I a charging animal before his -s'-pwwf -- could kill him. 'O^liifll