| Show AN ua UNKNOWN LAND A solitary explorers work in jomlia ills Dine overy of throe now new islands and ami other fhlug i of valno to 60 uio com coln an interesting man has for three years been beell studying the geography geol and physical condition of one of the bleak est parts of the world ilis his name naine is K M L L os oss ilof and lie he was first heard lie ard of in ILS tr lie he li had ad spent a year studying ta the A twin islands of nova govaya ya zemlia korthof north of the european mainland lie ile s said ld lie he intended to devote live five years to govaya zeallia Zo allia and lie he has now nov com 1 feted three years of investigation r this persevering perse veiling russian lias returned every year to archangel ahchan n el on the northern coast of europe fiu ropo with bl bit botanical anical miu eril and zoological hecim ons he lias has carried on his work with only one or two assistants and th they J have passed at le least alst one dark winter in that bleak land hand only twice before have white explorers wintered in govaya zemlia the first occasion i on was when the famous dutch explorer willem villem barents rounded the northern part of govaya zemlia and with his 3 party spent the long winter whiter of W timid amid much hardship and dis comfort on the northeast coast the second occasion occasion was not lauy years it ro when wa acil some norwegians Norwegia ns attached ached to ru exploring ex party were so enamored enamored a v of ali alie e lire life they led among aifong the natives cs who alio had a 3 tem temporary horary home bome on the twin i iJ dadds ands that they remained behind when awn their eoin comrades rades return returned od to civili livili alaton and their friends saw no more inore of them for a year or two until they grew weary oi of their isolation Noss ilof in the spring of 1889 reported the discovery of four coal fields ud dep deposits obits of iron copper gold and fulchur Fulp hur which lie said would pay for the iv corking vor king lie ile also collected a great deal of information regarding garding rc the animal life of the island kept a careful record of the meteorological C ical conditions candith condi tiona and surveyed a large k extent I 1 of country couii try while vy hile engaged en to aged in tracing traci ncr n the coast line lie he discovered three new islands one of which about nineteen wiles miles lon conf and thi three co broad lie he cuned il island larid last winter Noss ilof lived tit at the western entrance of Mattli matthew owr pra ma tots likin strait lie he hud had a comfortable house which had been specially constructed ted for him after his ill s own plans in archangel archana Ar chang el and v us carried on u atello schooner on O n to govaya zemlia fenili ift the eiml leance of work is is that ali almost single handed and mone alone lie he i 5 3 exploring 0 one of the least known parts part of the world tile best bea maps of 0 cavaya perlilla Zer lilla show little more inure blank spaces spa wes hn r the interior soul hunters yay kay tho the island is i w i L L timit L 11 L i 6 i I 1 i L A 10 V there aro ro chains running parallel wit will 11 the coast coa st the connary lias has no but ia 13 vl visited U d annually by ck N brorn 1 rom tho the nei acil n borms 0 in la in recent deaia s a number of expeditions 11 14 ulla cail live have t zemlia za but tho izland is till sull little known and eye even n the greater renter part of its coast line i li not yet accurately laid laid down dow on oil the maps durfli I arin r the summer of 1800 Noss ilof 3 in ade iv iS everil veral excursions into hito the kara sea collected filially birds und and animals si a part of the coa eliut A and took boun sounding dines U lie ile says that last winter was unusually unit y stormy sto riny and that son remained open until spring 0 torrents of rain fell so that the counte country y was covered with a COUtil coating lf of ice and many reindeer roin deer peris perished lied frona from 0 hunger hundreds of reals peals were frozen on oil the ice ice and fish were thrown up in bvm heaps aps on oil the shore the weather durino during a last spring und and sui summer niner was very severe and the temperature did not rise above 41 degrees de reer F up to the end of J july uly the explorer was however able to carry on the scientific N v ork of itis his expedition without interruption and to make laro zoological invests Jt ti ions ons this thi enthusiastic russian has led a more life during the ia lait A three years than almost any other civilized man lian lie ifo b lias Is faith that there is to lie be obtained oata 1 from govaya alo aya zemlia wid und bol believes leves it will hii I 1 pay to develop its it mine mineral ral resources |
