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Show i CAUGHT IN THE FLOES. .; Explorer Steffanson Will Remain In Frozen North Some Time. San Frnnclsco. Explorer V. Stef- J fnnson, connected with tho American m Museum of Nntural History, hns been 1 caught in tho Ico Hoes off Flaxman M Island nnd will hnvo to remain somo tlmo In tho frozen north. This infor- Sj mntlon wns received Wednesday In a Jfl message 'from Dawson, togother with W tho news that tho whaling schooner pi Roslo H. is also fast in tho Ice. .f Aftor several months of hardship, S Steffanson Is reported to havo startod tM in n small crnft to obtain supplies from tho whaling fleet 'nt Point Bnr- !i row. Tho whalers failed' to put In mi t -t nppenranco nnd Stoffnnson stnrtcd In Bcnrch of them. When .forty miles off. Flnxmnn Island his. sloop wns Imprisoned Impris-oned In tho Ico, Ho may havo to abandon his vessel nnd mnko his way to somo nntlvo settlement. It' was nenr Flaxman island that tho bark I Duchess or Bedford, conveying tho ' I Mlkkelson-Lefllngwoll expedition, was J wrecked. 1 |