Show AND REEd JOURNEY As the time a approaches fur for professor andree andrees And reea s balloon exploration of the arctic region 6 interest in the daring plan becomes more general swedish papers discuses the pru probable bable directions the navigators will take and aad they su mise that they will be first heard from in siberia after having left tion the explorers plan Is ie as an soon as A they have reached the island where when the ascension is to be made to wait f r f a favorable w wind ind from the south tbt tate they think will carry them the miles intervening between the starting point and the florin pule pole it to ie knawa however that this a jtb wind generally bends and becomes V south gouth weft breeze hence the theory that instead of being carried due north the balloon will be borne to 81 siberia beris probably in the region of the jens jena where the travelers can descend the whole distance covered on thin mis route would be about 1500 miles another probability is this the travelers v will ill be carried to the shores of it 3 the kara sea should the abe wind A a southeasterly dire direction etto Y the balloon would be cartheu to nora north america and the explorers would lano land somewhere where in alicks or orun undo i certain conditions said to be extremely rare in british north america the whole journey would cover from 1600 to 1800 miles and it might be made la in the remarkably short time oi of forty five 14 bours bourn 1 these calculations are made by ex but they amount only to tah abie under brojer conditions conoit ious lorty five hours after the seco ascension of the be party it will land either in asia or america they do not men mention lion however an other grave possibility that after andree has leit left spi bpi be may not again be board beard from at all they the seem item to be so ao confident of success 1 abu alme me that this contingency is not a al eded to in any of their |