Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — Arctic Exploration. [ARTICLE]

Arctic Exploration.

Arctic exploration made advance® during the year 1898, and two expeditions are now locked in the cold embrace of the frozen north. The®® are the exploring parties of Peary and Nansen. Lieutenant Peary sailed from Portland, Maine, intending to visit a number of the Labrador forts in search of dogs and other equipments, and thep to plan on north. He was to leave Upernavik and attempt th® passage of Melville Buy. Under dat® of August. 11 Peary wrote from Falcon Harbor, Bowdoin Bay, Greenland,!® Charles P. Daly, President of th® American Geographical Society. Hesaid that he had landed there with eighty-four dogs obtained at variouspoints along the Labrador and Greenland coasts and had scarcely been troubled at all by the Ice. He wrote also that he had made the passage of Melville Bay from the Duck Island® to Cape York in nearly a direct lin®, and in what he believed to be shortest time on record—twenty-four hour® and fifty minutes. At Falcon Harbor he said he had a perfect harbor for. his, ship and a good site for his hous®,. which is to be his arctic home thiswinter. He was confident of success in his explorations as soon a» th® spring opened. The scientific results of his passage of Melville Bay mode an interesting chapter in the history of arctic exploration. Dr. Nansen, in his ship, the Fraim sailed from Christiana June 26. Under date of August 2 he wrote to th® London Times from Yuger Strait, which separates the European mainland from Waigatch Island at th® south end of Nova Zembia. He reported that the Fram, which he had had especially built to resist ice pressure, had been tested by him and had given excellent satisfaction. He had received thirty-five dogs, but his coal supply had not arrived at the date he wrote. He intended to steer eastward along the Siberian coast until he reached the mouth of th® Olenek River, west of the Lena Delta. There some more dogs were to be in waiting for him. After leaving provisions in the New Siberian Islands, he intended to gj> northward along the west coast of these islands as far as possibleReaching there in September, he expected that the Fram would get caught in the ice and would drift northward, which would carry him a considerable distance before the spring opened.—[New York World.