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Show l'liirtiiiMiiomin: .voitni i-ui.t. Dm. Nansi la now In England, In the Interest of his Intended Arctic exploration. ex-ploration. He Intend! giving a lerjei bf lecture! In Loudon and olhir lead-lugcltlnoftheUnlltd lead-lugcltlnoftheUnlltd Kingdom. The I roccrils ore to Lu applied to tho tilting out of hla uatul. Tim London 7)ies nil Jus Itllkel) that thu explorer will lay tho wholi Un of his Intended exedUtoilllldttlll Ufoto the Itoyal Geological 81 clely III I,ondou uud ni-I ni-I ly to that Institution for financial aid. It lurus cut Unit the opproprUllou made t y the Norw iblan Storthing fur tho j urjKiac falls fur below thu coal of the undertaking. Dr. Nanaen aajt ho Intends tilling lu Jnnuir), 1891, and his purpoiu la lo reach the mcuth of thu Jena river In Liberia. litre ho eupiotts ho will slrlke a cum ut the norllu rlj illuctlou of which will eventually tarr him to the pole, lie has nut )et iklkkil whtllur to take the nearest rrulc around North tau and lliruugh the Kura strait, or lo tall Ihrciijli the Sue; eaual and then arouml Asia m through the Ilerlng etuilt Un nxf hoierMT, that If ho riall- airii 11 hi tour lu Juuuarj, ho wuulj 1 uvt un other choice than the latter route, he-cauae he-cauae the Arctl waters areuoexplor-able areuoexplor-able during the Aral months of tin ysar on account of tho Ice. Theixplorerctunla on a long trip snJ Intends tsklng siipllra with hlin for six yeara. A latloon, gas, boats and lelghsbeloog to the ara heroalla of his expedition l'r Nanteii It no fantast. lie eeaks of hla Intended voyage In a tober, builneta llkutoue, calculating eeerylhlng aa nearaapos. slble, aud genersllyiucceedsln lmr. lug to hit au llencca tome of tho confl-donco confl-donco In the tucceaacf Ihe undertaking, which hn evhleully lerla himself Tho flrat atcllc explnrallom were inn le lu the luteiest ef the commercial world, !eo!o hoped to find a ahort nortli-raat or iiotlh.west pnsaage to Iho gulden realms of Ihe 1 s.. Tsils proved Impracticable, however, on account of the barrirra rained by the leu during tho gieater pnrt of the year. Hut of the norllieru regions entered by bold adventurers, science demaudeil a further fur-ther Investigation. Xnnsetlgoes there, as N'ordenaVJold and others before him, entirely lu tho Imrrestof science. As far bick aa lbSI two American explorer! ex-plorer! paaied through Hmlth'a Hound ami reached n lalltude ol 82 dig, 27 mill , and north ol thli point they saw au open polar tea, Iteming with animal ani-mal life. To fin 1 out the geogra) hlcal conditions of our globe In the extreme north la an object well worthy of the labor and expenaes lucldeut to lit ac-compllthmotit. |
