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Show I'KAltY TO THY IT AH.UN. Thu government refuting to assist Lieutenant .Very In 'another ellort la reach the Polar regions, he now proposer pro-poser to go as a private cltlteu. To Ihltend he will retlgu hit commission, ant obtain supplies and equipment from othor than government sources. Whllo he la about It, why not prepare a relief expedition to be In readlneas for sailing a mouth or to alter he acts tall? This has bectmo an Inevitable adjunct to all these Tola expedllloos, and It might at well be provldod llrst aa last, It would seem. It It also Io be hoped that he will amply stock the provision pro-vision department and not trust too much to what he can find In the frozen zone, to that suoh disagreeable deUlla as have come to us from up there as a man being shot for stealing a little food when he wat starving to detth, will not bavelo be recorded of ox-I.leuten-ant l'eary. lie already hat one "mysteriously "mys-teriously dk.npu.irod" una la hit credit, and should be adaunlshoj, If he la not already aware of the fact, that a crime ptr n Is no kit a crime because committed where there are no lawa of man's maklug to control the wayward. |
