Deseret Evening News | 1904-06-18 | Page 4 | Land or No Land

IM 11 NO yU IANI p p b The thither r there hers Is lund land tip the rl JQ pj RI 11 l cl ni op Ice coveted covered ocean that mysterious QUa ous spot on un the earth Is le I again discuss discussed dh u ed cd pining ng t 11 d In u Arctic Arctic A contributor to lo the tho th Nn Geographic Magazine In nn nil nr ur drip on that subject cl gives Ive some tamo Indica Indications tlona of lit lund laud there The paper vas nr first m t read before the ho Philosophical society of of Washington by lIy Mr Mm 11 It H A t Hurtle of 01 the th I 11 H Coast mind and tlc and It with facts Mr MI Harris first tho the loll Ilon of thi th currents In III I ho Ilse Arctic ns its I hy by various explorers and especially Nausea Then rhea limn Ira Iro condi cumuli conditions lolls No considered on in and mm ud tho thin tides and tho Iha conclusion Is III that the tho various phenomena observed cnn can best hest I be ho explained on the that there Is n rl largo Inland In the tidally of ot the tho Pole Pair The paper In It tho the Oeo Geo Geographic graphic lit id Illustrated by a n reap showing the probable size and out outline line of ot Iho tho Polar land humid On the rust cast end and north horth It barely bately hal I touches the tho Volt Pole while In the opposite directions It II stretches out toward Alaska and time Iho North American con coast COlli it I limit Hut the tho lolI arrived ti 1 nt lit are corroborated by br actual observations One Arctic Arable authority says the l of 01 Point Burrow have hlo a rL tradition to the tho effect that At nl one limo some nf ot their curried to 10 the tho north on Ico Ice broken ok 1 up Ui In ht u II southerly gale mid and that they After tunny nights arrived In a 11 hilly country Inhabited by hy people by whom they were kindly 1 treats cd J They returned without mishap and oth other r i f mire lire supposed to have hino had bud a 11 somewhat similar expedience eXI Captain 1 P I 1 ell n a nj j haler maler IH III quoted to the effect 1111 mi nn lIves wintering between belellI bet veen Harrison Camden bays claim to 10 hove have seen s en land to tl tho the north In time tile bright clear days of 01 The captain tells the tho following fol following lowing In tha the winter of an nn of ot Was very ver anxious for lor me mo to net get sonic some captain to take him the tho following sum summer flier mer with lIh his hlA family canon and outfit to In the tho northeast us its tar far ns nl the ship went and then he ho would try to Lind this mys Inya tulous land of which ho he hail hall heard beard HO so 0 much flinch but no one cared to 10 bother with this thin venturesome Eskimo 1 explorer Ko Hn confident win wee this IhlA man more of ot the truth of these reports that he was Will eager eHRer to sail Mall sway Into time tho unknown like another Columbus li Ir ht search of ot un an h par ad adlee Inc The only report of lit land lond having been seen Hen by b civilized man In this vicinity by Captain ot John Keenan of tit Troy New NV York In the seventies Ho lie was unit nt nl that time In III command of ot tho the bark of ot New Nc Med Medford I i ford tord Captain Keenan said that after taking Inking several whales the weather be lIo become come carne thick end ho ham stood to 10 the north I under easy callY sail anti and was WItH busily en cn Bused In trying out anti and stowing down the lie oil taken When time the tog fog cleared ort off ortland land hand was distinctly seen lIeen to 10 the north by hy him and nil alt the men of ot his hla but bill ns as he was Willi not on a it voyage voynne ornIt of ot ill III ills covery and there hero were no whales In Insight Insight sight he hit was wan W II obliged to 1110 the till order to pr keep keel away to 10 the tho south In 11 search of ot then them The of ids his voyage de tie depended on keeping among whales whale The he fuel feet Was true often ottell discussed lI among n the on the return of the fleet to 10 lien Han Francisco Francsco Fro In hr It the tho fall The Thc post position tion of Captain I ship at fit tho time time land woe was OH seen line has passed from my mind except that It was WA between HuN Har Harrison rison and Camden elm 11 lays Hays Commander Peary wi we ve believe In Inclines InclineR Inclines clines clineR to 10 the view Mew that land may be he found In the tha highest latitudes and that Is one OliO reason on why the th blank space on that part of ot the of ot time the tI world hUll him ns nil much fascination to him JIH as had Imad the blank portion of Dt the map of ot Africa to the tho lute late Penry Peary undoubtedly will make another effort at It solving this the interesting question or of C Cland land or nn tin 10 lan l