TRIP TO "CHEAT DEATH"
A young Irishman sailed from Liverpool lately for Canada on his way to the Arctic with, in his own rords, an dven chance of cheating death. His only companion was a fox lerrier. The man is Mr. Francis Kennedy Pease, aged 28 ; ivho lives in Portsmouth, and >ie is cointi to search for traces of the Franklin Expedition, which was lost in 1847. He says he possesses information given him in Denmark by a famous explorer now dead, *nd with this he hopes to trace the log books and diaries of Sir John Franklin's expedition. Mr. Pease will search the Arctic wastes alone for two years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21396, 20 October 1934, Page 8 (Supplement)
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110TRIP TO "CHEAT DEATH" New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21396, 20 October 1934, Page 8 (Supplement)
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