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Show STEFANSSON'S PLANS FOR CONING TRIP TO ARCTIC LANDS Will Be Accompanied by Nearly s Score of Scientists. SAN raA NCI SCO. Feb If -The completion com-pletion here yesterday of arrangements for the purchaaa of the Karluk. a 120-ton steam whsler, disclosed plans of Stef-snsson, Stef-snsson, discoverer of blonde Eskimos, for a second expedition to the far north. Ha will aall from San Franclaco May 1. Tha definite objective of the expedition will be tha unexplored portion of tha arctic circle north of Banks' land. Nearly Near-ly a score of scientists will accompany Stafanaaon and tha veesel will be equipped for a three yeara' voyage. The data which will be compiled will be givsn to tha museum of natural hlitory of New York and the American Geographical society. so-ciety. Tha Karluk will proceed first to the Ray of Uercy. northwest of Banks' land, and will ateam thence to the boundary of Prince Patrick taland. No white man ever haa gone beyond latitude 7s north in this region. The Mr' Mure expedition reached Mercy bay In laM while looklne; Tor the northwest paasagc. but tha veaael was abandoned and the party returned erland. Stefanaaon hopes to dlacover ,u large quantity of liquor left by tha Ale 'Clure ship Inveatlgator. The explorer was told of the land which he hopes to discover by the blonde Eskimo, Es-kimo, at Coronation gulf. Print's Albert land. He will sarch for several islamln said to have been Inhabited by a strange race of natives. The Karluk la a staunch little ship, provided pro-vided with ample iheathlng. snd said to 'be fully as seaworthy in the Ice fluids sw Captain Uoald Amundsen's Ft am. |