Show Before Andrea soared away from the little Dane island north of Spitsbergen July 1 1807 he ivan asked what lime I he would ho heard from His reply I was At least not before three months pnd ono year perhaps two years may elapse and you may one day be surprised by news of our arrival somewhere And if you never hear of us others will follow in our wake until the unknown regions of the north havo been surveyed He took with him Dr Ekliolm an eminent meteorologist of I Sweden and another scientist NisI Strlngberp of Stockholm and floated I away Periodically some nows comes that something has been found the last being from Hudson Bay to the effect that last spring some Indians hunting on the cast coast found some wreckage supposed to bo a car and In It the bodies of two dead men and another that was dying Still tho story will not bear analysis I Is possibly true bu tIt t-it Is not probable for urely Indians would havo been attracted by the Instruments In-struments or other metallic souvenirs and would have brought something away Nature has always been jealous of I her secrets In that region Sec Jiow all traces of Franklin were lost for yrs and he did not take the air for his vo abc But the north drew Its solitude and silence around him and held the secret I has now drawn those curtain around Andrcc and the years are stealing on and on but giving no sign of where the Norsemens last couch was sDread |