Show CARRIED OVER THE IC ICE fiELDS Letters Received from Letting Leffingwell Leffingwell well and Meil elsen of Anglo American Polar Expedition HEALTH OF PARTY IS GOOD EXPLORERS MAY NOT RETURN FOR TWO YEARS Portland Ore Ores March 19 Letters from Ernest Leffingwell and Einer Elner iner containing the first news of the Anglo American Polar expedition since the ex cx expedition expedition left Alaska were received here yesterday by b 11 H A Andrec Audice of the weather bureau The Thc letters were dated Nov No 21 and andreau resu reau The letters were dated Nov 21 and Nov No 23 3 i sail and were carried over oveT the th lee ice fields to Point Barrow Darrow where they the were delivered to the Canadian mounted po police police police lice Mr jr Ir Leffingwell states in his Ills letter that the Duchess of Bedford lies frozen fr in Ill solid oli l ice about aboul miles off Point Barrow and anti that preparations were at that time almost completed for starting on an ex cx expedition expedition into the tile unknown country countr lying north of this continent According to the tile writers the tile start will wilt be made early this spring Large Unknown Island goes on un to s say ay that judg judging judgIng ing from the tile tides and from talks with tile the natives they have come ome dome to the tile con conclusion that a large island exists not far from the he main land The Tile explorer says that the tile party part may not return from this trip for two years ears The weather eather was at the tile time the tile letters were written At 1 that time the severest cold had been n only 10 degrees below zero and andon on n some days the mercury had reached 10 degrees above The entire party of fifteen fifteen If teen were in good health at the time of or writing He lie says MaYS that experiments made by Dr Howe in the use of vegetable foods demonstrated their inadequacy and that the serving of meat to the tile men was resumed The experiment was made in inthe Inthe intIle the tIle belief that vegetable food would re reduce r reduce duce the danger danler of disease Leffingwell says saya that those thoR letters may be the last to reach the he outside world for or two years ears unless he succeeds in sending out a couple of men m n next summer |