Show AMUNDSEN SAILS FOR POLE Arctic Explorer Leaves Nome for the F Far r North Nome Alaska Captain Roald Am Amundsen left here on August 8 on his isis ship Maud for a cruise in the He Arctic Though Captain Amundsen has been I In n the Arctic for more than nineteen months he lie said his real vo voyage age would only begin with his departure from tome Kome to drift northward in an ice pack He said he would lay his course west of Wrangell Island and toward the he tIme Siberian islands keeping in open water as long as possible until he found a favorable place for striking directly dl- dl northward probably in the vicinity of ot where the Jeanette of th time the James Gordon Bennett Jr expedition foundered in 1881 |