Deseret Evening News | 1901-11-02 | Page 10 | Nansen's Fram and Captain Otto Sverdrup

MANSENS riA Ii AND CAPTAIN OTTO S r n r 1 I I 1 I 1 14 4 i IIIi l M iIi J jWJ I i h V VJ t 4 4 pf e 4 II IIII ll f I II C iH The accompanying illustration Introduces Captain Otto Oll Sverdrup th the U te temous ramous arctic explorer and tho the From Fram ram In which he be set Bet sail Mil June JUliO 1833 ms for tor or a II ln around the file pole polo Having now been three years absent on this vo onge ae Some om anxiety has arisen arlien concerning him and his seventeen shipmates but us as nahe he was provisioned for tor years and Is an Oil experienced explorer r having accompanied Konen In his trip across Greenland In 1636 and amid also the Pram in her former wonderful voyage vOlIse those who know kno hint him best have no tear fear The latest reports In fact Indicate that ho he may many have found the tile way to the he polo hole anti and now how be beon beon beon on his return Voyage Ills His ostensible object at tho the start was to discover ern limits of Greenland study the formation and find out It If possible the tho origin of the tho Ice but Jut as the last Information from Lieutenant Peary Ilary vas trig vasto to tho the effect that he himself elt had succeeded In rounding tho thon northern coast of or Greenland It Is possible that lint Sverdrup may mn changed d his bile course and finding open Ice free water made n a 1 dash for tor the pole Itself