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Show Dil. Xansi:s, a .Norwegian, will start out nest year to reach tha iNorth pole by way of lit bring straits. II, s theory is that the Japan currout flowing j through the straits reaches the coast of (jreecland by w ay of tho jiole. H ji will therefore sail into the ice with thj ! expectation of drifting upon the I pro'rnding axis of the earth. Tho party will carry five years' provisions. To the unscientific individual, it would seem as though tho results to be achieved are not worth taking such risks for. Lieutenant Fkaky, in his proposed dash across the ice cap of Greenland, , has a definite plan, but when it comes i to drifting 2000 miles through an nn- ' i known, ice-bound sea, it looks as if the ! navigator had gono mad. Nansf.n j I bases his calculations ou the fact that j i wreckage from the Jeanette expediti -.n ; was found near Greenland, but his pro- I I posal to try to float through iu tha same ! ( way seems as foolish as it would be for I a man to start down the Colorado river ' 1 in a scow believing, because a piece of i i timber from Green lliver had been j i found floasi.-iR paU l'uuia. bo could get ! v . through safely. J |