Show Will DRIFT YEARS WITH ARCTIC ICE Preparing to Make Trip in the Polar Regions SEVEN YEARS SUPPLIES FITTING OUT VESSEL TO MOVE IN INCURRENT INCURRENT INCURRENT CURRENT AROUND POLE New York April 9 supplies and an equipment that will last him at least seven years and tind in a vessel that has hns proved itself able to withstand terrific ice tee pressure from all directions for any length of time Captain Roald Amundson Amundsen famous Norwegian explorer and discoverer discoverer discoverer of the Northwest Passage will push out into the great expanse of yet unexplored unexplored unexplored north polar territory toward the close of the coming summer on what might truly be b called the tha most Important voyage of exploration of the age He will leave Norway in inthe Inthe inthe the Fram that remarkable veteran of sieges siege in May Mayor or June pass pOss around Cape Capo Horn and then make for tor San Fran Francisco FrancIsco Francisco cisco where whore he expects to arrive In July or August Augu t He will there stock his vessel with provisions enough to keep his men mn menon menon on full rations for the outside limit of the time he expects to take Air or 01 his journey From San Francisco Captain Amundsen will go direct through Behring Bearing Strait to Point Barrow on the Alaskan coast and thence Into the polar pack Once frozen in the ice he expects to drift through the Arctic ocean otean from west to east pass over the north pole or very near It and come out with teh ice through the Greenland Gr sea or Barents sea The actual distance Is about abot three thousand miles but with the backward forward and side move movements movements movements ments of the polar field through the in influence Influence fluence of the winds and tides fides Captain Amundsen figures that his vessel will travel possibly four thousand or five thou thousand thousand thousand sand miles before It makes or Hammerfest near North cape This will be an expedition purely in the interest of science and navigation The north pole has been discovered and countless numbers of explorers havo have en on entered entered the polar sea mapping out slowly but gradually large areas of the hitherto mysterious frozen zones May Find Land There yet et remain above the seventy fifth parallel of latitude approximately one million square miles of territory to tobe tobe tobe be opened up to tho world and if Cap Captain Captain Captain tain Amundsen is III successful suc he will bring knowledge of perhaps or maybe that immense area In a single venture It IB Is not beyond the realm of or probability that he will find land par por haps a continuation of the archipelago around Melville sound or maybe an island as large as Greenland which has been the tho cause of or turning one current of the Arctic to the Siberian coast Captain Amundsen counts on spending at least four years ear locked In the Ice and ana rind every moment of that time will be de devoted devoted voted to what might be termed a continuous ous of meteorological and ocean research My expedition has got to be success successful successful successful ful said Captain Amundsen before he left for Chicago where he has gone to look after some come of the details Of his voyage When we once get into the ice on the west side there la le nothing left but that we are as certain to come como out at the east cast as we are aro that the sun will shine tomorrow unless our ship 13 is crushed In the Ice and that Is 18 beyond probability Captain Amundsen Is no amateur In polar exploration and the s terrors of to news crunching crun ice are no not new to him In 1903 in the Gjoa a II little vessel hardly larger than an oyster sloop he set sot out from Norway In perhaps what was the tho fifteenth or twentieth attempt to discover a northwest passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific With only six companions he put In through Davis Dals strait skirted the Canadian and Alaskan coasts and finally camo came out through Behring strait In August 1906 1900 His H Is Boat and Crew The Frames probably the strongest ves vessel vessel sel s 1 over ever built She is only feet long loner lon and Is 36 feet wide Her hull is made of or ol five and four sea of heavy tim timber ber and at nt the bow is four feet thick while toward the stern Is three feet Captain Amundsen will take with him the following officers and crew Theo Theodore Theodore Theodare dore dare Nilsen of the Norwegian navy nary vloe Ice commander Prest rud of the Norwegian navy n Y first mate Frank GJert Gjertsen sen een of the Norwegian navy second con mate OScar Eliassen first engineer Martin arten Ronne second engineer Andreas Beck and Helmar Hansen Ice pilots B Birko Birke Birkeland land meteorologist from the government meteorological nf bureau of la Cap Captain Captain ail tain Frederick Helmar He a Johansen Johanen Olo Ola Ba s bjaaland Jorgen Stubbe Adolf AdoU Lind Lindstrom Lindstrom strom and S Hassel all round round g tois and seamen and J cook Aside from the usual equipment t Cap Captain Captain tain Amundsen will win take tako with him twenty r live We polar bears They Y have havo been under training In his country for many months months and will be used to pull the sledges In the event of at the two sinking si g of tho Fram ram Here Heretofore all explorers have used dogs |