ANDREE'S BALLOON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12814, 13 July 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

ANDREE'S BALLOON.

A SENSATIONAL ESKIMO TALE*. 1. Christian Laden, a Norweguu^N explorer, has returned to the United States"""with .what he believes to be the. first „, evidence of the fate of Andree's balloon. Laden was commissioned by. tlie" Jloyal Museum of Berlin*- the University ,of Berlin,, and . the University, of "Clhrtstiania to explore the tinknown region of north-western Canada, and to obtain data about the Undian tribes m the region, some of which have never* before been visited by white men. At a point two hundred miles north by west of the point at which it has been generally believed that Andree perished, Laden encountered a tribe of Eskimos, who related a story to the effect that several years ago a large bubble fell from the heavens', containing two creatures supposed to :be ''.' "devils," and that these . creatures were able to hurl forth fire and thunder from strange implements that they carried. The members of the tribe attacked' the two creatures and succeeded m killing one of theni with arrows, whereupon the other made motions to. them signifying - that he and his companion were shooting at birds for food and had come m peace. When the Eskimos realised that t/hey. " ; had attacked human beings, who ..had; no* unfriendly motive, they fled m 'dismay,, leaving the surviving whites man alone. What became of him they do not know.