| Show THE SOUTH POLE there sailed from the northern of dundee on sept 6 two of sst port 1 fleet of four whiling whaling vessels the ak two sailed ailed on OB the ath the rate fate of will be followed with chiou considerable terest the mission milon it is true truels to fc ly a commercial and prosaic pro Baloon one b there are it which invest circumstances it with the halo of ro romance manoe or 0 says baeth t york advertiser the vessels heags a now bo bound und for the 10 icy y w water averof of the are not which within certain well dens north nn limits limit at all events event are fairly famias familia to ma marinero mariners marl nera their destination destinations i the antarctic seas a region of L the to which there still olinge clings machof globe SS much of the mystery and fasol fascination nution which es belongs to the unknown vw the voyage may indeed be said gald to tw be almost entirely one of it icib is this thia fact which has attracted ia much attention to the departure otha of the tour four dundee wh whaler alers and chic h cause both in many this and elsewhere to look with country more laore thas usual anxiety for their safe re return turin I 1 for a number of 1 1 years pa pat the cai ia austry associated with the or greenland and which at one time timea W of considerable Om importance has haa beeb steadily on the decline abe there re wits much capital invested inverted in its it but latter ly there has haa been little or no retard and often there has hag been a very loss lobb enterprise Enter prine however known kiowa rip no limits and it cannot flud find scope in on part of the world it is only in 1000 ance with the flens of things t that bat this last expedition to ts now new ground should hould have been fitted out by capital and be dominated dominate d by BrIt brotia leb pluck men experienced in suck matters matten believe that the harvest which lc is now denied them in the far will be found in the far south and ana should hould this opinion joia be confirmed oon gon firmed t discovery dine overy will be one of importance the 11 thing to in that serious attention has haa never been du dt erected to this thia region before it Is i truo trun that half a century ago a london merchant did aid make some rome sort bort of an a attempt to explore from a com commercial point of view the antarctic bosan and obtained from the government of the day a gra grant t of the auckland ift 4 lan lands dethe the south of nw new zealand aaa aa a e J basis bails of operations operation but this art aa t 4 tempt proved a failure and he be never made another whatever vermay may tie be b ultimate result of the present bapa i t it will certainly not be aban boned till every effort has baa been made that can be made to insure its ite Buco eap the great silent sea ea into which the dundee whalen will sale bale Is as ag we four have said comparatively unexplored while toward the north pole the limits of the unknown have been pushed back considerably farther than 80 deg the south polar region within the antarctic circle is certain n small exceptions still blank on an the worlds map sir john ross rosa halt hair century ago carried out perhaps the a examination of the expanse most I 1 systematic that has hag been made but the challenger during the famous brulee only just crossed the antarctic circle to la till still ample opportunity that there 0 so o wresting of some ome of natures nature forthe for the secrets accrete from their hiding biding places in the vast loof ice fields felds of the auth south the area of the whal the destination selected tei as an the meridian of green lie jim between ers era and west welt joe IOB 90 deg it to li ac 9 from this country by a direct route lying between a tho continents of america and africa of ome nome miles in length the vessels have been equipped s steamers etes mers but it la 16 intended that most be made under shall of tile the passage mail gall land and with aa average speed of five fire knots an hour the he voyage will it to Is balc calc calculated be accomplished in tw two 0 months four M months months will be spen spent t to complete cargoes and the vessels expect to reach home again about the month of may each ship will carry a crew of forty men A 1 the commanders are experienced navigators and the surgeons on board have bare been supplied with instruments which will enable thorn them t to 0 record fully the results of meteorological and magnetic observations to take soundings bring up sp specimens a caimens of the sea bottom colnot flora aid aad fauna and so 00 one on fhe ex perdition tion therefore has another land and more than alo ommer olal cial one and it is quite possible that from a scientific point of view the results may be of considerable value it Is just possible too that A antarctic ra explorations which has been beau neglected for some time may receive a fresh impetus from the discoveries of the whalers chalers wh alers in past years many british lives have been lost in voyages of d discoveries in ia toy icy seas and some of the most fas cinatl cina ting ng stories of british heroism center around the same cheerless regions but nature there is a till still very far from being an open book and this further attempt to throw a little fresh light on its unread pages is in hailed balled with the greatest satisfaction perhaps the most flattering circumstance in connection with the expedition so go far Is in the ft fact that the oater enterprise prise of the dundee ship owners has stimulated representatives of another nation into action A powerful steamer belonging to norwegian owners Is also about to proofed eed to southern se asAnd aslAnd so the shrinkage ot of the world goes on |
